Calthrop Collection

Chelsea Arts Ball - Noel Coward and Ivor Novello
A group at the Annual Chelsea Arts Club Ball, held at the Royal Albert Hall every New Years Eve. Back row from left, Mr Frank Verner Leveson, Mrs Calthrop, Ivor Novello, Miss Gladys Cooper

Mrs Calthrop
A portrait painting of Gladys Calthrop, sat with folded arms, wearing a distinctive orange dress. After befriending Noel Coward

Gladys Calthrop with poster
Gladys Calthrop (1894-1980) was an artist and stage designer, here seen with a recruitment poster she designed for the Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC). Date: 1940

Noel Coward and Gladys Calthrop, 1937
Noel Coward (1899 - 1973), the English playwright, actor and composer, and Gladys Calthrop, artist and stage designer. Date: 1937

Gladys Calthrop - The House That Was a Mill. Showing the theatre designer in her home, a converted mill, at Charing, Kent. (1 of 2) Date: 1933

Gladys Calthrop
Gladys Edith Mabel Calthrop (nÚÑáTreeby), (1894 -1980), artist and leading British stage designer. She is best known as the set and costume designer, best known for her collaborations

MAN OF 1790S
Fanciful Edwardian depiction of costume of the 1820s but looking somewhat earlier: coat described as a Jean-de- Bry, many fob ribbons, hessian boots, tall crowned hat. Date: early 19th century

William Newell, using a Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute
On 9 May 1914 William Newell, using a Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute, used the Grahame-White Type 10 Charabanc - also known as the Aerobus - to undertake the first parachute descent in Britain

The Old Country by Dion Clayton Calthrop
Promotional postcard for The Old Country by Dion Clayton Calthrop, First produced at Wyndhams Theatre, 2nd September 1916

The Live Wire, at the St. Martins Threatre 1918
Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, showing the cast of the production of The Live Wire, at the St. Martins Threatre

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