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Drawing, Costume Design: Love, for "Checkmate"
This is a Drawing. It was music composed by Arthur Bliss and designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer and production directed by Ninette de Valois and made for (as the client) The Royal Opera House. It is dated ca. 1947 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on heavy white 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.
- Drawing, Costume Design: Henry IV, for "Henry IV"
- brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-171
Its dimensions are
51 × 38.3 cm (20 1/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
It is signed
Signed in black ink, lower right: E. McKnight Kauffer
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: [arrow to helmet] blue shiny; lower right: yellow = gold-shiny; in black ink, lower right: Love “Checkmate”
Cite this object as
Drawing, Costume Design: Love, for "Checkmate"; Music composed by Arthur Bliss (British, 1891–1975); Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890–1954); Production directed by Ninette de Valois (Irish, 1898–2001); Client: The Royal Opera House; USA; brush and gouache, graphite on heavy white paper; 51 × 38.3 cm (20 1/16 × 15 1/16 in.); Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer; 1963-39-274
