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1969

  • Work on this object began.

1975

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Drawing, Costume Design: Cleopatra, for Julius Caesar

This is a Drawing. It was made for (as the client) Hamburg Opera. It is dated 1969 and we acquired it in 1975. Its medium is brush and watercolor, opaque watercolor, graphite, crayon on off-white wove paper mounted on illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Lila Tyng.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 50.8 × 38 cm (20 in. × 14 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed and dated in brown crayon at lower right: "J. Varona / NY 69"

It is inscribed

Recto: Inscribed in graphite across lower margin: "Cleopatra - (Joan Sutherland) / 'Julius Caesar' - Handel - Hamburg Opera 1969" Verso: Inscribed in graphite at lower right: "F168 / 128 \ 4" / J. Verona"; in blue ink at lower right: "32"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Design: Cleopatra, for Julius Caesar; Client: Hamburg Opera; USA; brush and watercolor, opaque watercolor, graphite, crayon on off-white wove paper mounted on illustration board; H x W: 50.8 × 38 cm (20 in. × 14 15/16 in.); 1975-78-1

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