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''Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth'' is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent. Painted in 1889, it depicts actress Ellen Terry in a famous performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Macbeth'', wearing a green dress decorated with iridescent beetle wings. The play was produced by Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London, with Irving also playing Macbeth opposite Terry. Sargent attended the opening night on 29 December 1888 and was inspired to paint Terry's portrait almost immediately.〔 ==Dress== Terry's spectacular gown was designed by Alice Comyns-Carr 〔Née Strettell; 1850–1927; wife of dramatist J. Comyns Carr〕 and made in crochet by Ada Nettleship,〔Née Hinton; wife of artist John Trivett Nettleship and mother of Ida, who married Augustus John.〕 using a soft green wool and blue tinsel yarn from Bohemia to create an effect similar to chain mail. It was embroidered with gold and decorated with 1,000 iridescent wings from the green jewel beetle, ''Sternocera aequisignata''.〔〔(Drama and Desire: “Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth” by John Singer Sargent ), Art Gallery of Ontario, "Art Matters" blog, June 22, 2010〕 The dress has a narrow border of Celtic designs worked out in red and white stones, is hemmed on all the edges, and girt with a gold belt. The design was inspired by a dress worn by Lady Randolph Churchill that was also trimmed with green beetle wings.〔( Shakespeare on the American Stage: From Booth and Barrett to Sothern and Marlowe ), Volume 2 of Shakespeare on the American Stage, Folger Shakespeare Library; Charles Harlen Shattuck; Associated University Presses, 1987; ISBN 0-918016-77-0, p.181〕 It was designed to "look as much like soft chain armour... and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent".〔(The actor and the maker: Ellen Terry and Alice Comyns-Carr ), Victoria & Albert Museum; attributed to Mrs. J. Comyns Carr's 'Reminiscences'. London: Hutchinson, 1926.〕 Terry wrote to her daughter, "I wish you could see my dresses. They are superb, especially the first one: green beetles on it, and such a cloak! The photographs give no idea of it at all, for it is in colour that it is so splendid. The dark red hair is fine. The whole thing is Rossetti—rich stained-glass effects."〔 (Women in the Age of Shakespeare ); Theresa D. Kemp; ABC-CLIO, 2009; ISBN 0-313-34304-7, p.125; attributed to Terry's ''Story of my life'', p.197.〕 Oscar Wilde quipped that "Lady Macbeth seems to be an economical housekeeper and evidently patronises local industries for her husband's clothes and servant's liveries, but she takes care to do all her own shopping in Byzantium."〔(Sepia photolithographic print of the painting ), c.1870, Victoria & Albert Museum〕 The play was very successful, running for more than six months to packed houses. The costume was reused on many later tours, crossing the Atlantic to visit North America at least twice.〔Maev Kennedy, (Ellen Terry's beetlewing gown back in limelight after £110,000 restoration ), ''The Guardian'', 11 March 2011〕 The dress was restored in a two-year project that began in 2009 when £50,000 had been raised to pay for the work.〔 In 2011, after 1,300 hours of conservation work and a cost of £110,000, it was placed on display in Ellen Terry's home, Smallhythe Place, near Tenterden in Kent.〔〔( The archaeology of a dress ), 29 March 2011 〕 It has been described by the National Trust as "one of the most iconic and celebrated theatre costumes of the time".〔(Famous 'Beetle Wing' dress of Victorian actress Ellen Terry returns to her home ), National Trust〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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