Design for a Theater Curtain
Object Details
- Designer
- V. Bertolotti, active 1850–1860
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal format. Designs in the grotesque style. An exedra forms the central motif in which a woman with a dagger, probably "Tragedy," stands between two seated women; the left one holds a bloody bearded head, the right one plays a lyre. Two satyrs crouch at the outside.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- mid-19th century
- Accession Number
- 1931-73-276
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- theater
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black, blue ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 39 cm (9 1/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1931-73-276
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4eec25d01-5e90-4f28-afc4-c47ffc179e4d
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