[View of the stage of the original Globe Playhouse, 1599--1613]

Creator:

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) (author)

Contributor:

Ennis, Robert Brooks) (artist)

Date:

1900s

Description:

Stage

Identifier:

(FURNESSTHEATER)furness_mgl350_8_l

Provenance:

Gift of Rear Admiral J. W. Schmidt

Subject:

Theater Architecture; Production and Direction; Globe Theatre, London, (place)

Resource Type:

Image

Form/Genre:

watercolors (paintings)

Physical Description:

51.0 x 76.0 cm.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Globe Theatre, London - Built by Cuthbert Burbage in 1599. Destroyed by fire 1613. Rebuilt in 1614. Demolished 1644.; Notes about J. W. Schmidt: Constructed a contemporary model of the original Globe Playhouse.; R. B. Ennis.; This watercolor is either a prototype for-- or a mirror of-- the actual Globe Playhouse model in the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library, built by Rear Admiral J. W. Schmidt, USN (Ret.) and presented as a gift in 1961. The scale of the actual model in Furness is one forty-eighth or 1/4" = 1'.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania: Furness, M/Gl350.8 L, Drawer

Collection:

Furness Theatrical Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)