1705
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Drawing, Design for a stage set for Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus at the Theatre Royal, London for Act II, scene 1, a great hall looking into a garden is a 1705 by James Thornhill, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is a design for a stage set. It's for a play called Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus. The stage set depicts a great hall looking into a garden. It was created for a specific scene in the play, Act II, scene 1. The drawing is part of the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and to learn more about similar artistic styles, look up the movement: Baroque.
A pen-and-ink and wash drawing by James Thornhill, this stage set design for Act II, Scene I of *Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus* shows a great hall opening onto a garden, created for the 1705 production at the Theatre Royal, London. Thornhill first sketched the composition in red chalk before refining it in pen and ink and reinforcing shadows with wash. The work was purchased from W.J. Smith in 1891 and originally part of an album of drawings and engravings by Thornhill, later dismantled and remounted.
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Sir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.
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