Design sketch
Design for “Aida”
Auguste Mariette · 1869–1871
The Egyptologist Auguste Mariette designed the costumes for the première of Verdi’s Aida in Cairo.
- Object number
- HGO-BT-PT-0005
- Type
- Design sketch
- Collection
- Costume design
- Maker / artist
- Auguste Mariette
- Date
- 1869–1871
- Place of origin
- Cairo, Egypt
- Materials & technique
- Pencil and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Digitised copy
- Related production / event
- Aida (Giuseppe Verdi) — premièred in Cairo, 1871
- Condition
- Good
- Display status
- In storage — Collection store — basement (illustrative)
Keywords: Design sketch · Opera · Verdi
The story of the object
Mariette drew directly on ancient Egyptian reliefs, giving the costumes of Aida an archaeological accuracy rarely seen on the operatic stage.
Record & rights
- Provenance
- Public-domain digitisation on Wikimedia Commons.
- Acquisition
- Sample digital record for this demo
- Digitisation
- High-resolution photography
- Rights
- Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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