Design for a Theater Curtain, V. Bertolotti, active 1850–1860, Pen and black, blue ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite on wove paper, 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., Italy, mid-19th century, theater, Drawing

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