Costume and set designs for various productions / Desmonde Downing, 1947-1975

PXD 823

series

1947-1975

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Clippings

65626

Drawings - 36 pencil, watercolour and gouache, felt pen
Photographs - 2 colour) ; 8.8 x 12.3 cm.-30.4 x 23.6 cm. - 21 silver gelatin photoprints (6 mounted on board
Clippings - A4 - 10 photocopies

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS:
PXD 832/Folder 1
1. Amelia goes to the ball: 1966 [costume design]. Watercolour
2. Amphytrion 38 : Act III, Independent Theatre 19 [set design]. Watercolour
3. Ben Hall : Town of Wheogo, 1974-75 [set design]. Watercolour
4. Christine [costume design]. Gouache
5. Cousin from Fiji : Ella [costume design]. Watercolour
6. Even unto Bethlehem : 8 b&w. photographs mounted on board [set design & opera scenes], 1960
7. Joan of Arc : [costume design]. Her Majesty's theatre 1960? Pen & ink
8. Kukaitcha Ballet : didgeridoo player [costume design]. Watercolour
9. The Magic Flute : [costume design]. Watercolour & pencil

PXD 832/Folder 2
10. The Magic Flute : Scene 10 Outside the temple, 1956/57 [stage setting]. Watercolour & gouache
11. The Magic Flute 1956-1957 : Act 1 Sc 10 [stage setting]. Watercolour
12. The Magic Flute : Populace [costume design]. Watercolour
13. The Magic Flute : Lady of the night 1956. Watercolour
14. The Magic Flute : Slaves (6 off). Gouache & pencil with material swatches
15. Melody that got lost. Independent Theatre 1947. Gouache
16. Nancy [costume design]. Pencil & watercolour
17. Ned Kelly, Jerildrie (sic) Bank backcloth, 1956. Gouache
18. Ned Kelly : Act III Sc.I, 1957 [set design]. Watercolour

PXD 832/Folder 3
19-20. Nuclear, 1973 [costume designs]. Watercolour & felt pen
21. The Night of the Iguana : [set design]. Independent Theatre. Felt pen
22. Othello : Act I, 1967 [costume design]. Watercolour & cloth sample
23-25. Pagliacci : Strong and Lonely for Christmas Opera [costume designs]. Watercolour
26. Pagliaci : Silvio, 1964 [costume design]. Pastel
27. Pagliaci : Chorus, 1964 [costume design]. Pastel
28. Paulo and Francesca [stage design]. Watercolour
29. Picnic [costume design]. Pencil & watercolour

PXD 832/Folder 4
30. Rita [costume design]. Pencil & watercolour
31. [Stage design]. Watercolour & gouache
32. The Sunken Bell : Act II, 1950 [set design]. Watercolour
33. Tell-Tale Heart : 1961 [set design]. Felt pen
34. Trouble in Tahiti : 10 City people, 1971 [costume design]. Watercolour & pencil
35. Trouble in Tahiti : Witchdoctor, 1971 [costume design]. Gouache
36. Trouble in Tahiti : Tahitian dance figure, 1971 [costume design]. Watercolour

PHOTOGRAPHS:
PXD 832/Folder 5
37. Amphitryon 38 :Independent Theatre, Sydney, 1950 [set design] / Eric W. Bierre photo.
38. The Apple Cart : Independent Theatre, Sydney, 1953
39. Cavalleria Rusticana : Melbourne & Sydney, 1952 / Eric W. Bierre photo.
40. Desmonde Downing designer of Dark of the Moon sets, Palace Theatre, Sydney, 1950
41. La Parisienne : The Independent Theatre, 1950 / Hal. Williamson photo.
42. Lohengrin : Act III, Melbourne & Sydney, 1952 / Eric W. Bierre photo.
43-45. The Magic Flute : The Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera Co., 1956-1957
46. Melody that got lost : The Independent Theatre, 1949
47. Ned Kelly : Elizabethan Theatre, 1956
48. Piccadilly Bushman, 1967 [stage set]
49. R.U.R. : The Independent Theatre, 1948 [stage set]
50. Richard II : ABC [horse being outfitted] / Color Prints, Sydney, photo.
51. Song of Hagar : Ampitheatre 200, Sydney, 1970 / Noel Hickie, photo.
52. Desmonde Downing with some of her work - Designer Exhibition, 1973

NEWSCUTTINGS:
53-62. cuttings on Desmonde Downing

Alphabetically by name of play

Drawings are titled and signed
Photographs mostly titled and dated with production information on reverse