Sir Cecil Beaton
Anne Todd's costume for "Princess of France" from 'Love's Labour's Lost', 1954
watercolour over ink
47.5 x 25.5 cm
18 3/4 x 10 1/8 in
18 3/4 x 10 1/8 in
Beaton's designs for a production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Old Vic in 1954 were his first for a Shakespeare play. John Gielgud wrote of the designs: 'The simplicity...
Beaton's designs for a production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Old Vic in 1954 were his first for a Shakespeare play. John Gielgud wrote of the designs: "The simplicity and ingenuity of the whole design serves the play most admirably and the clothes are beautiful, striking and poetic."