Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird': PD.23-2006

An image of Drawing

View image details

Universal Viewer Deep zoom

Mirador deep zoom

IIIF Manifest Slow looking Use this image

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Alternative views

An image of Drawing

An image of Drawing

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'

Maker(s)

Robinson, Frederick Cayley

Entities

Drawing

Categories

Drawing

Description

Design for Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'

Notes

History note: Theatre Royal, Haymarket; Christopher Wood

Legal notes

Bought from the Cunliffe Fund with contributions from the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 2006

Measurements and weight

Height: 523 mm
Width: 320 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (2006) by The Cunliffe Fund

School or Style

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Bodycolour
Blue chalk
Graphite
Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of pasteboard

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Graphite, black and blue chalk, watercolour and bodycolour on O.W pasteboard

Inscription or legends present

Text: CAYLEY-ROBINSON
Location: Lower left
Method of creation: Graphite
Type: Signature

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.23-2006
Primary reference Number: 133348
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 8 April 2022

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Cite this record

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133348 Accessed: 2023-02-05 20:35:30

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133348
            |title=Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-05 20:35:30|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-133348

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp13/PD_23_2006.jpg"
        alt="Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Machine readable data

JSON Linked Art XML TXT QR code

Contact us

Your name

Please enter your name as you would like to be addressed

Email address

Please enter your email address

Object

The object accession number - this is prefilled

Query Please enter your query with as much detail as possible

More objects and works of art you might like

An image of Drawing

Palace of the Night

Accession Number: PD.29-2006

An image of Drawing

The Kingdom of the Past

Accession Number: PD.27-2006

An image of Drawing

The Forest

Accession Number: PD.25-2006

An image of Drawing

The Leave Taking

Accession Number: PD.28-2006

Suggested products from Curating Cambridge

Featured image for the project: The Bird Trap - Christmas card pack

The Bird Trap - Christmas card pack

£7.00

Featured image for the project: The Siesta - Art print

The Siesta - Art print

£30.00

Featured image for the project: Woman Reading - Art print

Woman Reading - Art print

£30.00

Featured image for the project: Olives in Corfu - Art print

Olives in Corfu - Art print

£30.00

You might be interested in this...

Featured image for the project: Twisted Blue Form

Twisted Blue Form

Featured image for the project: The Bird Trap - Christmas card pack

The Bird Trap - Christmas card pack

Featured image for the project: Wakashima Gonemon and the Bell

Wakashima Gonemon and the Bell

Featured image for the project: Antonio Rodriquez and the New Zealand Cross

Antonio Rodriquez and the New Zealand Cross

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...