Ballet and opera set and costume designs

Scope and Content

Set and costume designs. Including Graham Sutherland's first and only work for the theatre. He was commissioned to design two backcloths, and the costumes, for Frederick Ashton's ballet The Wanderer, which premiered 27 Jan. 1941 by Sadler's Wells Ballet at New Theatre, London, with Helpmann and Fonteyn.

Five costume designs for various ballets outlined in pencil and painted in watercolour. Notated with comments about the characters' costumes. Including Sleeping Beauty, one costume design by Oliver Messel for Sabrina in the ballet Comus, one costume design for a male role in 'The Little Mermaid', and one costume design by Peter Rice for the roles of Angèle Didier and Count René of Luxembourg in the production of the operetta The Count of Luxembourg dated 1982.

Set design sketches/paintings and maquettes by Frederick Crooke for Rigoletto played at the New Theatre, London from 1942. Designs for various ballets outlined in pencil and painted in watercolour. Notated with comments about the characters' costumes.