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Pen and watercolor drawing of two theater box designs with draped canopies, swags and tassels above gray paneled walls.

Two Designs for Decoration of Boxes, Tor di Nona Theater, Rome

Two side-by-side pen and watercolor designs show theater box fronts with draped fabric canopies, swags, tassels and gilded ornament over a grid of gray panels and classical friezes. The left version is rose and cream, the right pale blue, both sketched in pencil and ink on a light ground.

Artist
Giuseppe Valadier
Date
1819
Medium
Pen and gray ink, watercolor, over pencil
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
4000 × 2747 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1819).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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