Vanessa Bell

Black and white negative of Elizabeth Carr, Francis Birrell and Angelica Bell performing “Les Precieuses Ridicules” in fancy costumes outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Title: Black and white negative of Elizabeth Carr, Francis Birrell and Angelica Bell performing “Les Precieuses Ridicules” in fancy costumes outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex
Date: 1931
Medium: Black and white negative
Dimensions: 124 × 85 mm
Description: The performance was played in a wicker hut that had originally been bought for Quentin Bell when he was recovering from pleurisy.
Format: Photograph - negative
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to the Tate Archive by Angelica Garnett, the loose negatives in 1981 and the albums in 1988 and 1992.
Reference: TGA 9020/11/336

Post-Impressionism Bloomsbury Group