Title: Costume Study for Bassa Selim in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1830–50
Artist:  Johann Georg Christoph Fries 
Artist bio: German, Nuremberg 1788–1857 Regensburg
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor, over graphite, gum arabic
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. (28.5 x 20 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Costumes, term: Men