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Drawing, Design for a Theater Curtain
This is a Drawing. It was designed by V. Bertolotti. It is dated mid-19th century and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and black, blue ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The central figure holding a dagger probably symbolizes Tragedy. The seated figure at the right holds a Roman theater mask; that at the left, a lyre. The grotesques are brought up-to-date by the addition of winged nineteenth-century ballerinas.
This object was
donated by
Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
23.5 × 39 cm (9 1/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
It is signed
Signed in pen and brown ink, at right over the scalloped bottom edge: V. Bertolotti
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Theater Curtain; Designed by V. Bertolotti (active 1850–1860); Italy; pen and black, blue ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite on wove paper; 23.5 × 39 cm (9 1/4 × 15 3/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-73-276
