Charles Ricketts Costume Design for ‘Montezuma’ c.1925–6

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Artist
Charles Ricketts 1866–1931
Title
Costume Design for ‘Montezuma’
Date c.1925–6
Medium Watercolour and graphite on paper
Dimensions Support: 368 x 292 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Presented by the Art Fund 1933
Reference
N04686
Not on display

Catalogue entry

N04686 COSTUME DESIGN FOR ‘MONTEZUMA’ c. 1925–6

Not inscribed.
Pencil and watercolour, 14 1/4×11 1/2 (36×29).
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1933.
Coll: See N04684.

An inscription on the back of the mount reads: ‘Dress for Topia, Master of the Household. Costume design for “Montezuma” never produced No.40.’

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

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