Specifications
THEATRE BOXES, or boîtes de théâtre as the French cheerily term them, were always popular alongside theatre prints and toy theatres but catered for a different kind of customer: the avid playgoer keen to recreate for themselves “the vital moment” in a play they had enjoyed.
The second run at the Grand Visitoria is a set of 5 colour-in-&-cut-out boxes to construct. Brought to you by paper impresario Charlotte Cory with a highly entertaining potted history of the Grand Visitoria by resident dramaturge Charlotte Cory.
The artist and curator of The Grand Visitoria, Charlotte Cory has dug into the archives and created these collages for you to cut out and make. Colour and embellish whilst enjoying the stories behind the performers at The Grand Vistoria.
The utterly brilliant Wild Girl of of Hampstead Heath, Eliza Jane in ‘Fine Fur & Feathers’ and the classic of all ‘Visitorian’ (Charlotte Cory’s registered trademark) dramas ‘Rich at Last’
“You will laugh until you cry…but don’t let your tears smudge the watercolours” Percy William-Williams Theatre Reviewer
- Illustrator
- Charlotte Cory
- Pack Size
- A4
- Pack Contains
- 5 x card sheets & 1 x text sheet
- Size of models when made
- H20 x W25,5 x 03 cm
About Charlotte Cory
Merging the 19th century worlds of Charlotte Cory’s the Grand Visitoria featuring the ‘Visitorians’ (anthropomorphic characters based on early photographic visiting cards) with tinselled theatrical portraits is a collaboration between Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop and Charlotte Cory who have a shared love of toy theatre, cabinets of curiosities and fantastical stories based in Victoriana. Charlotte uses collage and montage to create her ‘wholly believable’ post-Darwinian universe. The ‘Grand Visitoria’ colouring project plan was hatched over tea at The Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. However, it turned out that with Charlotte’s eavesdropping at our shop in Covent Garden she could read our minds and everything fell into place!
