{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1247233"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1247233/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2013GV0461/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2013GV0461/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2013GV0461","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1247233","accessionNumber":"S.520-2012","objectType":"Set design","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"Set design by Gladys Calthrop for Act I of Noel Coward's play <i>Private Lives</i>, possibly 1944. <i>Private </i>Lives opened at the Apollo Theatre, London, on 1 November 1944. The hotel terrace setting shown in published photographs of that production does not correspond to this design, which may be for a later revival. The play was presented in 1946 at Wimbledon Theatre and was given a British tour in 1949. It was also staged in the USA but the lack of export or customs stamps on the design suggests that it was not made for the 1946 USA tour or for the 1948 New York revival.\r\n\r\nGladys Calthrop (1894-1980) was an English set and costume designer. Born Gladys Treeby in Devon, she married, and later separated from, Everard E. Calthrop. She met Noel Coward in Italy during 1921, they subsequently became friends and worked together on many plays. Their first collaboration was on <i>The Vortex</i> in 1924 for which Calthrop designed both sets and costumes. She worked in both London and New York.","physicalDescription":"Set design depicting a hotel terrace with two French windows. Annotations in ballpoint pen. Signed by the artist, lower right","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Calthrop, Gladys","id":"A33387"},"association":{"text":"designers","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting (image-making)","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour and pencil on paper","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2013GV0461"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"008","id":"THES356689"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"set design","id":"x31494"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1944","earliest":"1944-01-01","latest":"1944-12-31"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":"possibly"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Gladys Calthrop","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"36.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"52.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Slo 3884 / \"Private Lives\" Act I. Moonlight / Paint down O.P &amp; P / keep lower part of balustrade / nearly black - / Border. Black velvet / Top flats with blck / velvet - / &amp; paint up to in. / Striped awning sun- / blinds rolled up / Small piece of trellis / White iron chairs / round iron tables / hydrangea in tub / Some bourganvillia on / balustrade / Door on each backing / furniture for 2 rooms / lights [for 2 rooms] / lights on outside walls / small window P side'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed in ballpoint pen, right"},{"content":"' Backings yellow - grey - narrow stripes.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed in ballpoint pen, lower edge"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Set design by Gladys Calthrop for Act I of Noel Coward's play <i>Private Lives</i>, possibly 1944. Gladys Calthrop Design Collection","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Noel Coward","id":"N1745"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":["Private Lives"],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.520-2012"],"accessionNumberNum":"520","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":2012,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Archive number","id":"THES54576"},"number":"THM/52"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2012-05-16","availableToBook":true}}