Design for a Theater Curtain
date: label: Date
content: mid-19th century
name: label: Designer
content: V. Bertolotti, active 1850–1860
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-73-276
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black, blue ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite on wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.5 × 39 cm (9 1/4 × 15 3/8 in.)