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Call Number:
MSS 50
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)
Title(s):
Envelope from the Cabaret Theatre Club, addressed to Robert Bevan
Date:
1912 April
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 2
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
The top third of the envelope bears an illustration, by Wyndham Lewis, showing dancers and a calf, above the words "Cabaret Theatre Club." The envelope may have been used to mail the club's Preliminary Prospectus (see f. 1). Described and reproduced in Cork's <title>Art beyond the gallery,</title> page 69. Not described in Michel. The envelope is addressed to "Robert Bevan Esq., 14 Adamson Road, Hampstead, N.W." It is postmarked "Ap. 19 [?] [19]12". Bevan was a founding member of the Camden Town Group.
Physical Description:
1 envelope ; 21 x 27 cm
Genre:
Envelopes (Stationery) , Application forms, Blank forms, Envelopes, Ephemera, and Prospectuses
Subject Terms:
Bohemianism
Futurism (Art)
Modern dance
Modernism (Art)
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Nightclubs
Programs
Restaurants
Social life and customs
Theater
Vorticism
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
London (England)
Associated People/Groups:
Bevan, Robert, 1865-1925
Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)
Cave of the Golden Calf (London, England)
Finding Aid Title:
Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5731.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2314550
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2314550?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1