Costume Design: Poetry for a Ballet
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1720
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. A woman is shown, standing, with a trumpet in her right hand, the left hand holds the neck of a violin-cello. Her coat is decorated with rows of stars. Written on top, in pencil: "La siga Cecilia," in the upper left corner: "Nobilta/o Poesia," in the upper part of the bodice, and in the left sleeve: "Biancho," in the lwoer part of the bodeice, and in the skirt: "Turchino." Written above, in ink (over pencil): "La poesia vestita di azurro celeste sopra ivi saranno/molte stelle coronate di alloro."
place: label: made in
content: Modena, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-3-11
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lead pencil, pen and ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.4 × 20.2 cm (11 9/16 × 7 15/16 in.)