Ferrario Collection

Stage Set Design for a Ballet: Don Parasol, 1869. Creator: Carlo Ferrario
Stage Set Design for a Ballet: Don Parasol, 1869

Set design for the Opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi. Creator: Ferrario
Set design for the Opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi. Private Collection

Reconstruction of a Roman ship El Corvo di Duillio, from customs and manners of the people, Ferrario 1830

Procession to a Taoist traditional wedding, China, c1820-1839. Artist: Giovanni Bigatti
Procession to a Taoist traditional wedding, China, c1820-1839. From Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

Ancient Chinese war chariot, c1820-1839. Artist: Giovanni Bigatti
Ancient Chinese war chariot, c1820-1839. From Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

Explorers with Humboldts expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla, Mexico, c1820-1839. German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldts (1769-1859) interests included geophysics

Native American widows approach their chief for permission to remarry, c1820-1839. Plate 57 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

Temple of Rameses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt, c1820-1839. Artist: G Bramati
Temple of Rameses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt, c1820-1839. Statues inside the Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel. The Italian explorer Giovanni Belzoni cleared the temple of sand in 1817

Tomb of Tamahamah at Kaiakakooa, Sandwich Islands, c1820-1839. Artist: Felice Campi
Tomb of Tamahamah at Kaiakakooa, Sandwich Islands, c1820-1839. Plate 33 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne By Jules Ferrario

Boatyard near Kupang, Timor, Indonesia, c1820-1839. Plate 9 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

Occupations of the Agagna people, Mariana Islands, c1820-1839. Plate 29 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

House of the Ancients, Island of Tinian, c1820-1839. Artist: G Bramati
House of the Ancients, Island of Tinian, c1820-1839. Plate 31 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario. Examples of distinctive stone structures known as latte stones on the Mariana

Ceremony in the Inca capital of Cuzco, Peru, c1820-1839. Artist: Jules Ferrario
Ceremony in the Inca capital of Cuzco, Peru, c1820-1839. Manco Capac confers distinction on the Princes of the Blood by piercing their ears

Charles II, the Bald, 9th century Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor, (c1820-1839). Charles the Bald (823-877) was king of the Western Franks from 843-877 and Holy Roman Emperor from 875

Christopher Columbus with Native Americans, 1492-1503 (c1820-1839). Artist: DK Bonatti
Christopher Columbus with Native Americans, 1492-1503 (c1820-1839). Columbus (1451-1506) made four voyages to the New World between 1492 and 1504

Christopher Coumbus with Hernando Cortes receiving a native American girl as a gift, (c1820-1839). Plate 5 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, Volume I, by Jules Ferrario

George Washingtons House at Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA, c1820-1839. This plantation on the banks of the Potomac River was inherited by George Washington from his sister-in-law in 1759

The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II, Mexico, 1519 (c1820-1839). Cortes (1485-1547) was the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico

Deception of Captain Wallis by Queen Oberea Artist: G Bramati
Deception of Captain Wallis by Queen Oberea, 1820-1839. Scene from Samuel Walliss voyage of circumnavigation in HMS Dolphin, undertaken from 1766-1768

Papu Tribe on the Isle of Rawak, c1820-1839. Artist: G Bramati
Papu Tribe on the Isle of Rawak, c1820-1839. Plate 20 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario

George Washington, first President of the United States of America, (c1820). Artist
George Washington, first President of the United States of America, (c1820). After commanding the American Revolutionary army to victory over the British in the American War of Independence

Roman soldiers building a fort, (c1820-1839). Artist: Vittorio Raineri
Roman soldiers building a fort, (c1820-1839). Plate 21 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, by Jules Ferrario, published c1820s-1830s

Slaves preparing tobacco, Virginia, USA. c1790 (c1820-1839). Artist: Angelo Biasioli
Slaves preparing tobacco, Virginia, USA. c1790 (c1820-1839). Plate 50 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, Volume II, by Jules Ferrario

Set design for opera Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi. Found in the Collection of The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Vanity table, Desdemonas room. Set design for opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi, world premiere, La Scala, 5 February 1887, 1887. Found in the collection of Museo Teatrale alla Scala

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