V&A celebrates a century of national theatre archive with tribute to avid collector

The show, Enthoven Unboxed, not only includes items from her collection of 80,000 artefacts and ephemera, gathered from the turn of the 20th century until her death aged 82 in 1950, but also some other theatrical jewels. An 18th-century bust of Sarah Siddons, sculpted as a self-portrait, reveals the actor to be an accomplished artist. Other highlights include the Killigrew Patent, one of the two most important documents in the history of British theatre, in which King Charles II granted permission for spoken drama to be performed on a London stage (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) in 1662.