{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O740096"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O740096/"}},"images":null,"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O740096","accessionNumber":"E.2254-1934","objectType":"Print","titles":[{"title":"Costume design","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Portrait format drawing depicting a design for a poor dress, for the Character of Mabubah, int he film \"Chu Chin Chow\".","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Cathleen Mann","id":"AUTH330648"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"}],"techniques":[{"text":"watercolour drawing","id":"x37878"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Drawing, watercolour on paper","categories":[{"text":"Theatre","id":"THES250537"},{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"},{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"DT","shelf":"6","box":"C"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}],[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1934","earliest":"1934-01-01","latest":"1934-12-31"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by the Artist.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"14.125","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"8","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"The dimensions are taken from:\r\n<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934</u> London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Cathleen Mann","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Costume design, drawn by Cathleen Mann, Marchioness of Queensberry, for the film \"Chu Chin Chow\", produced by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd, Great Britain, 1934.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934</u> London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"The following excerpts are from 'China and the West' by Yang Hon-Lun and Michael Saffle:\r\n\n'Between 1916 and 1921, Chu Chin Chow ran for 2,235 performances in London and several hundred more in New\r\nYork. That show’s West End run broke the London record of 1,075 performances, set by A Chinese Honeymoon in 1901–4.'\n\r\n'Despite its title, Chu Chin Chow is almost entirely about imagined Arabs. Before act 1 even begins, the show’s eponymous “merchant mandarin” is murdered by the evil Abu Hasan, who then takes the merchant’s place. Faux Chinese\r\nmusic accompanies Hasan’s entrance in Chinese disguise, but the rest of the show, which recasts the familiar adventures of Aladdin, is outfitted with a score dimly reminiscent of Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov'. \n\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[{"text":"Gaumont-British Picture Corporation","id":"AUTH330649"}],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"dress","id":"x47499"},{"text":"costume design","id":"AAT163423"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.2254-1934"],"accessionNumberNum":"2254","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1934,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-27","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}