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Costume Design Tubal in Merchant Venice
Presented by the Art Fund 1933
‘The Merchant of Venice’
actions: postures and motions
adults
beard
body
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Jewish
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Tubal
paper unique watercolour graphite
Costume Design for Tubal in ‘The Merchant of Venice’
support: 387 × 279 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1933
<p><b>N04687</b> COSTUME DESIGN FOR TUBAL 1918</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Merchant of Venice Y.M.C.A.’ t.l. and ‘Tubal’ t.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 15 1/4×11 (39×28).
<br/>Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1933.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> See No.4684.
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Ricketts, 1939, pp.302–3.</p>
<p>Tubal, a Jew, is a friend of Shylock's who brings him the news that Antonio's argosy is lost (<i>Merchant of Venice</i>, Act III, scene i). Costumes were designed in September 1918 for this play, <i>Twelfth Night and Two Gentlemen of Verona</i> for performances at the Y.M.C.A. hut in Le Havre and Paris. Ricketts mentions this in a letter to Laurence Binyon (<i>loc. cit.</i>) in which he gives the sources of some of the costumes and adds that ‘Shannon agrees the designs are perhaps my best.’</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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actions: postures and motions adults beard body characters clothing and personal items dress: fantasy/fancy ethnicity hat headdress Jewish literature and fiction man objects people robe Shakespeare society standing theatrical costume ‘The Merchant of Venice’ Tubal