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Set Design with Courtyard, Gardens, and Chapel for "Il Trovatore"

Carlo Ferrario
1833-1907

Set Design with Courtyard, Gardens, and Chapel for "Il Trovatore"

8 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches (207 x 295 mm)
Graphite, with white opaque watercolor, on green paper; perspective lines in pencil.
1989.44:3

Gift of Frederick Fox.

Notes
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.
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 left edge in pen and brown ink, "Ferrario C."
Associated names
Fox, Frederick, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department