Carlo Ferrario
1833-1907
Set Design with Roman Ruins for Achille Peri's "Rienzi"
19 x 25 inches (482 x 638 mm)
Brush and watercolor and pencil, with some colored chalk, on paper; perspective lines in pencil.
1989.44:1
Gift of Frederick Fox.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
One of three Set Designs, originally part of an album, now dismembered.
The support for each leaf has Ferrario's name and the name of the opera printed in gold.
Archille Peri's "Rienzi" was performed in Milan on 26 December 1862.
The Donald Oenslager Collection of theatre drawings at the Library contains an additional twenty-eight drawings by Ferrario that were originally a part of this album (Acc. Nos. 1982.75:215, 1-28).
One of three Set Designs, originally part of an album, now dismembered.
The support for each leaf has Ferrario's name and the name of the opera printed in gold.
Archille Peri's "Rienzi" was performed in Milan on 26 December 1862.
The Donald Oenslager Collection of theatre drawings at the Library contains an additional twenty-eight drawings by Ferrario that were originally a part of this album (Acc. Nos. 1982.75:215, 1-28).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed along right edge in pen and brown ink, "Ferrario C."
Associated names
Fox, Frederick, former owner.
Peri, Achille, 1812-1880. Rienzi.
Peri, Achille, 1812-1880. Rienzi.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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