• Valerio Spada (etcher)
• Fernandino Tacca (theatre designer)
• Gaspare Vigarani (etcher)

Perspective stage design for 'Ercole in Tebe', showing Act 1, Scene 1, the royal courtyard with Hercules greeting Iole

printed 1661

• record drawing

Etching

plate mark: 21.8 x 29.1 cm sheet: 32.0 x 44.8 cm

DR1984:0640

• line drawing
• freehand drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view

signed - by the etcher, in the plate on the image, l.l.: "VSpa" [on base of column; monogram of Valerio Spada] inscribed, signed and dated - by a later hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, l.l.: "Perhaps you can / decypher these / initials" and "ER for EGC [Edward Gordon Craig]. 1922."; and l.r.: "Probably [underlined] by Vigarani + put on the / French stage - circa 1660"

Florence; Italy;

• design de théâtre

• theatre design
• performance