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Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Serving Man, for "Queen of Scots"

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and production directed by Sir John Gielgud. It is dated 1934 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Edward McKnight Kauffer. It is credited Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.

Its dimensions are

34 × 26.9 cm (13 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in purple ink on verso, at center: THIS DESIGN TO BE RETURNED / to E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER - / 141 SWAN COURT-LONDON. S.W.3.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in gouache, upper right: English servant [crossed out] / Serving man (2)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Design: Study for Serving Man, for "Queen of Scots"; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Production directed by Sir John Gielgud; USA; brush and gouache, graphite on notebook paper; 34 × 26.9 cm (13 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-260

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