Title: Design for the Opera: The Magic Flute, Act I, Scene I
Object type: Print
Date: 1847–49
Artist:  Karl Friedrich Thiele 
Artist bio: German, 1780–1836
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Aquatint printed in color and hand colored
Dimensions: image: 9 7/16 x 14 1/2 in. (23.9 x 36.8 cm)
plate: 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (28.5 x 40 cm)
sheet: 14 x 20 3/8 in. (35.5 x 51.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY