drawing
- Museum number
- 2017,7067.43
- Description
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Costume designs for a ballet: Two couples, one in Chinese costume and the other in Indian costume
Pen and brown ink, watercolour, over pencil
- Production date
- 1750-1797
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres
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Width: 383 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit: P. Fuhring, 'Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament: The Lodewijk. Houthakker Collection', London, 1989, vol. I, pp. 420-421, no. 673 (as 'French School, third quarter of the 18th Century).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by Sven Gahlin in 1994.
This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2017,7067.43