This site uses cookies to improve your experience. View our Cookie Policy
Preferences

Cookie Preferences

Essential

These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.

 

Cookies that measure website use

We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.

 

Cookies that help with communications and marketing

These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.

 
 
View our Cookie Policy
×

Image filter options
This is a new website and is still being developed.
Artworks Themes
Projects & Exhibitions Cynfas Articles Learn
About Us Contact Us
Cy
Artworks Themes Projects & Exhibitions Cynfas Articles Learn About Us Contact Us
Previous Artwork Next Artwork

Costume designs for the Welsh National Opera

Alexander, McPHERSON
Costume designs for the Welsh National Opera
Image: © Alexander Mcpherson/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
 Zoom

We have a duty of care to all our audiences. This website draws on legacy collections data. We recognise that some of this information may be outdated or discriminatory and we're currently working to review our records. If you have any questions or comments on an artwork, please contact us.

Copyright statement provided by Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 21840

Creation/Production

Alexander, McPHERSON
Costume designer, designed for Welsh National Opera during the late 1970s
Role: Artist
Period: 1977

Measurements

Height (cm): 56
Width (cm): 37.9

Material

Watercolour
Gum arabic
Felt-tip pen
Pencil
Paper
Fabric
Pins

Location

In store - verified by J Carver
More

Tags

  • Cravat
  • Design
  • Dressmaking, Patterns And Material
  • Fine Art
  • Glasses
  • Male Figure
  • Opera
  • Period Dress
  • Post 1945
  • Theatrical Costume And Fancy Dress
  • Works On Paper

Share

More like this

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
The Snake
SUTHERLAND, Graham Vivian
© Estate of Graham Sutherland/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Swimming in the sea. Paleokastritsa. Corfu. Greece
HURN David
© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Trouble flared in Grosvenor Square, London, after an estimated 6,000 marchers faced up to police outside the United States Embassy
HURN David
© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
We have a duty of care to all our audiences. This object record contains imagery that some users could find upsetting.
Preemie Baby unit at St Joseph's Hospital. Working within minutes on the birth of a preemie baby. Phoenix, Arizona USA
HURN David
© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Interior of a Farmhouse Kitchen, Nant Gwynant
GOTCH, Bernard
By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Shop front in Hollister a town on the San Andreas Fault. The town is regularly hit by earthquakes. California, USA
HURN David
© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
We’re working on releasing this image.
Courtyard of the Meiji Shrine, Tokyo, Japan
BISCHOF, Werner
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Capel Gore Triptych
MALTHOUSE, Eric
© Eric Malthouse/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Rouen with the Tower of St. Ouen, Sunrise
BONINGTON, Richard Parkes
By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Iceberg
PLACKMAN, Carl
© Estate of Carl Plackman. All Rights Reserved 2025/Bridgeman Images/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Two Oak Forms sliced and charred
NASH, David
© David Nash. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Two Oak Forms sliced and charred
NASH, David
© David Nash. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
We’re working on releasing this image.
Foreign Ministers Conference on French-German collaboration at the Hotel Splendide, Lugano, 1928
SALOMON, Erich
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Nashdown, the Lord Abbots Pool
HOWARD-JONES, Ray
© Nicola Howard-Jones/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Retired gentlemen at the MG car owner's ball. Edinburgh, Scotland
HURN David
© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
We’re working on releasing this image.
The Bathers
RAVERAT, Gwendolen
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Thinking about Dante XVIII
PHILLIPS, Tom
© Tom Phillips. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Germany, Wolfsburg. From the series ‘The Big Sea'
MARKOSIAN, Diana
© Diana Markosian/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Front Elevation of the Museum and Free Library
HODKINSON, W. B.
By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Disneyland, opened in 1955. The only Disneyland designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. Anaheim. California, USA
HURN David
© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

  • Artworks
  • Themes
  • Projects & Exhibitions
  • Cynfas Articles
  • Learn

The Website

  • About Us
  • Accessibility
  • FAQ
  • Copyright
  • Cookies Policy

Connect with us

  • Contact Us
  • Instagram @celfarycyd
× ❮ ❯