Ballet . Il Conte d'Essex Appartamento d'una Regina. Etching and aquatint

by Carlo Zucchi after Alessandro Sanquirico 1737-1777 of a scene from the ballet by Gaetano Gioja

$600 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

334 x 402 mm. A very good impression on wove paper. The scene depicts a high vaulted Gothic room in which a seated woman and two men watch while a second women ?the queen dances. Small tear to lower edge, not affecting image. Il Conte d'Essex was first performed at La Scala in Milan in the autumn of 1818. The music for the ballet is ascribed to the Austrian writer and composer Peter Lichtenthal 1780-1853 . He was a close

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