Costume design for Delilah in The Girl from Cook's

Object detail

Media/Materials

Watercolor and graphite on board

Measurements

12 1/2 x 10 1/4in (31.8 x 26cm)

Credit line

Gift of The Tobin Endowment

Accession number

TL2002.231.3

Object type

Drawings and Watercolors

Department

Theatre Arts

Location

Not on view

Theatre production

Musical comedy by Robert Burnside. Produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 1927.

Further information

Inspired by Thomas J. Cook’s famous travel company, this musical comedy took visitors on a world tour of historic beauties. Biblical temptresses included not only Salome, but also Delilah, who permitted the Philistines to cut Samson's hair, the source of his God-given strength.

Maker

Irene Segalla (British, b.1894, d.1982)

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