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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

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