Design for a ceiling in a theatre, Italy, (1928). 'About by Giuseppe Borsato for a theatre ("Teatro Giustiniano")...Borsato [1770-1840] was professor of ornamental art at the Venice Academy. a number of theatres in Venice and other towns in the [eighteen] twenties and thirties'. After an aquarelle pen-and-ink drawing. Plate CV, fig 199, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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