Code: 11476
Angus McBean (1904-1990)
A Small Archive of Theatre Books & Ephemera Incuding A Scrapbook Containing Approximately Twenty-Two (22) Original Gelatin Silver Prints of Photographs by Angus McBean (1904-1990) for the 1949 Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'Cymbeline'
Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
Circa 1949
Provenance:-
John R Phillips an actor and director at the 'Masque Theatre', Northampton.
Angus McBean is one of the most significant British photographers of the 20th Century. He believed his work in the theatre, most especially that of recording important Shakespearean productions from his era, to be one of his very finest achievements.
Among other things in the archive here are approximately twenty-two original gelatin silver prints of photographs taken by McBean of the 1949 Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Cymbeline" with Leon Quartermaine (1876-1967) in the title role and a cast which includes the young actors Robert Hardy and Robert Shaw. Each image beare McBean's studio stamp with his address of "53 Endell Street, WC2".
