print
- Museum number
- 2004,0531.37
- Title
- Object: Capinera (Blackcap)
- Description
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Veiled woman in strong shadow watching a funeral procession in a graveyard from a barred window, chair lower right, highlights on veil and window l. 1889
Etching
- Production date
- 1889
- Dimensions
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Height: 279 millimetres
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Width: 195 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Martin Hopkinson, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', BMP, 2007, no. 26:
It is likely that there is a literary or operatic source, such as Victorien Sardou's 'Tosca' of 1887, for this print of a veiled woman in mourning watching a funeral procession through the barred window of a prison. Conconi took other subjects from Boccaccio, from Gounod's Faust, and a play by Luigi Illica. The title, 'Capinera', is the Italian for the bird, the blackcap. The etching has the alternative titles, 'Sad moment', and, presumably ironically, 'Joyful hour'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Jan.-May BM, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', cat.26
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired from an anonymously donated fund for modern Italian and Israeli works
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2004,0531.37
