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Drawing, Stage Design, Ruins of Antique Buildings, design for "Gli Avventurieri" by Carlo Valentini (1790-1853), produced at the Teatro Pantera, Lucca in 1837

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Emanuele Alderani. It is dated 1836–37 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray and black wash, white gouache on green paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 20.4 × 27.8 cm (8 1/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left margin: Emanuelle Alderani; at center: Rouine di un Antico / castello gotico; at lower right: Invento e fe

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design, Ruins of Antique Buildings, design for "Gli Avventurieri" by Carlo Valentini (1790-1853), produced at the Teatro Pantera, Lucca in 1837; Designed by Emanuele Alderani (Italian, active 1829-1837); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray and black wash, white gouache on green paper; H x W: 20.4 × 27.8 cm (8 1/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-420

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