Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Blue-stockings>: (22) The blue-stocking declaiming her play — Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: — Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. — The entire audience (in a low voice): 'and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven! '
Date | 1844 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph, newsprint paper |
Size(cm) | 21.6 x 17.6 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1242 (iii/iii), Tobu I-461 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-0630 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 69.