Main entry:

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.

Title & Author:

Designs by Inigo Jones for masques & plays at court : a descriptive catalogue of drawings for scenery and costumes mainly in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. / with introduction and notes by Percy Simpson & C.F. Bell.

Publication:

New York, Russell & Russell, 1966.

Description:

xii, 158 pages illustrations (1 mounted) 51 plates, portrait 33 cm

Series:

The twelfth volume of the Walpole Society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- The masque and its setting -- The curtain and the proscenium -- 'Discovering' the scene -- Movable scenery and the 'Machina Versatilis' -- Arrangement of the lights -- Arrangement of the scenery -- The dresses -- The cost of production -- History and contents of the collection of drawings -- The style and technical characteristics of the drawings -- The identification of the subjects -- Sources of Inigo Jones's inspiration -- Catalogue of drawings -- Drawings for known masques and plays -- The Queenes masque of blacknesse / Ben Jonson, 1605 -- Hymenaei / Ben Jonson, 1606 -- The masque of Queenes / Ben Jonson, 1609 -- Tethys festival / Samuel Daniel, 1610 -- Oberon, the Faery Prince / Ben Jonson, 1611 -- The Lords maske / Thomas Campion, 1613 -- Inns of Court Maske / George Chapman, 1613 -- Pleasure reconciled to virtue / Ben Jonson, 1618 -- The Masque of Augures / Ben Jonson, 1622 -- Time vindicated / Ben Jonson, 1623 -- Neptune's triumph / Ben Jonson, 1624 -- The fortunate isles / Ben Jonson, 1625 -- A French pastoral / author unknown, 1626 -- Love's triumph through Callipolis / Ben Jonson, 1631 -- Chloridia / Ben Jonson, 1631 -- Albion's triumph / Aurelian Townshend, 1632 -- Tempe restor'd / Aurelian Townshend, 1632 -- The shepheard's paradise / Walter Montagu, 1633 -- The triumph of peace / James Shirley, 1634 -- Coelum britannicum / Thomas Carew, 1634 -- The temple of love / Sir William Davenant, 1635 -- Florimene / author unknown, 1635 -- The triumphs of the Prince d'Amour / Sir William Davenant, 1636 -- Britannia Triumphans / Sir William Davenant, 1638 -- Luminalia / probably by Sir William Davenant, 1638 -- The passionate lovers / Lodowick Carlell, 1638 -- Salmacida Spolia / Sir William Davenant, 1640 -- The Queene of Arragon, William Habington, 1640 -- Doubtful and unidentified drawings -- 'The tragic scene' and designs apparently connected with it -- Unidentified scenery -- Unidentified personages and costumes.

ISBN:

084620732X
9780846207320

Subject:

Masques.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
Costume.
Theater England.
Masques (Spectacles)
Théâtre Angleterre.
masques (performances)
Theaters Stage settings and scenery.
Theater
Costumes.
Costume Angleterre (GB) Histoire.
Theater Great Britain.
England

Form/genre:

Masques
Masques (Spectacles)

Added entries:

Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish, Duke of, 1868-1938.
Bell, C. F. (Charles Francis), 1871-1966, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
Twelfth volume of the Walpole Society.

Designs by Inigo Jones for masques and plays at court

Holdings:

Location: Library main 96639
Call No.: IDX; ID:85-B14555
Status: Available