Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/726
Title
Original sketch and drawing for the Trinity College First and Third Boat Club May Ball poster
Date(s)
- 1972 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 drawings; pen-and-ink; 38.8 x 58.5 cm (sketch), 59.5 x 72.8 cm (finished drawing)
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Lord Inglewood (Richard Fletcher-Vane), May, 2024.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The finished drawing is inscribed at top "To Alternative Richard Vane, the sole begetter" above the title of the ball, "The Other Glorious Twelfth." The verso of the sketch has instructions for wording to be added to the finished drawing announcing musical acts booked, as well as an instruction to add the words, "This show is put on by the man who promised Panem et Circenses."