France, Nice. Fire at the Italian theatre, on the night of March 24, 1881. On Wednesday, March 23rd 1881, as the opera Lucia di Lammermoor began, a gas leak started a huge fire. The fire was controlled the next day but there was nothing left of the theatre. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Española y Americana, 1881.

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