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| Image Title | Snug as Lion |
| Performance Title | Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Author / Composer | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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| Theater | Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, England)
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| Opening Performance Date | 1954 |
| Object | Costume rendering |
| Type | Image |
| Material/Techniques | Watercolor; Gouache |
| Support | Paper |
| Dimensions | 13 1/4 x 18 1/2 |
| Associated People | Devine, George, 1910-1966 (director); Blake, Mervyn |
| Style or Period | Archaic Greek with Eastern influence
c. 500 B.C.
Assyria, Persia, Phrygia
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| Production notes | http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/motley/prodnote/prodmid.htm |
| Inscriptions | A Midsummer Nights Dream; Snug, Play costume, Lion; Mervyn Black, in manuscript hand, upper right corner. |
| Description | Costume rendering for Snug as Lion in Midsummer Night's Dream: Snug on hands and knees with brown lion's head mask and lion's body costume over arms and back, to knees. Lion costume fastened with brown ties. Some of Snug's clothing is visible: red shirt with gray stars; black tights with gray stripes; black sandals. |
| Subject I (AAT) | costume design
costumes (character dress)
gouaches (paintings)
brown (color)
shirts
red (color)
gray (color)
stars
tights (opaque stockings)
black (color)
sandals
ties (fasteners)
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| Subject II (TGMI) | Theatrical productions
Costume design drawings
Lions
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| Subject (LCSH) | Theater--History |
| Rights | Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; For questions regarding these materials, please contact the Rare Book and Manuscript Library: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/7016277 |
| Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| Collection | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) |
| Inventory Number | 540323-021 |
| JPEG2000 URL | http://varuna.grainger.illinois.edu/motley/jp2/540323_021.jp2 |
