Calendar for the year 1883. Etching and drypoint

by Giuseppe Verdi, - Rigoletto

$475 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

320 x 412 mm. + wide margins. A proof, without background scenery. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower right margin, with Etat in pencil above signature. On laid paper. A scene from Verdi's opera Rigoletto, with a calendar of saints days for 1883 flanking the stage. Uniformly browned. Béraldi: les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle, 1. Victor Hugo's play, upon which the opera was based, was banned in

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.