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Carlo Ferrario
1833-1907
Set Design with Courtyard, Gardens, and Chapel for "Il Trovatore"
Graphite, with white opaque watercolor, on green paper; perspective lines in pencil.
8 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches (207 x 295 mm)
Gift of Frederick Fox.
1989.44:3
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).
Inscription:
Signed along left edge in pen and brown ink, "Ferrario C."
Provenance:
Art market, New York; Frederick Fox, Englewood, NJ.
Associated names:
Fox, Frederick, former owner.
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