Raccolta di scene teatrali
Subtitle: eseguite o disegnate dai più celebri pittori scenici in Milano
Publisher: Stanislao Stucchi
Published: 1827
Place of publication: Milano
Language: ita
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Pictorial works; Theaters; Stage-setting and scenery; Opera; Production and direction; Ballet; Teatro alla Scala
Notes: Consists of hand-colored aquatints of set designs for opera and ballet productions staged between 1789 and 1827, mostly at Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Title from t.p. of part 3.

Caption titles identify the opera or ballet and the artist and aquatinter.

Each leaf is numbered; 48, 49 from part 3 are misnumbered 47, 48.

Gift; Winthrop Ames; 19 July 1905; Thr 1123.1.

Inserted between plates 34 and 35 in part 3 is a hand-colored lithograph of a set design from the opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei, numbered 30 in the upper right and 135 at the bottom, with the imprint: Milano : Presso Gio. Ricordi ; Firenze : Presso Ricordi Pozzi e C. [ca. 1827].

T.p. from part 3 bound at front, followed by plate 73 from part 1.

Bound in 1 vol. in contemporary half green sheep and marbled boards, gilt.