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
Date
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
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1931-73-276