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Original – Title page of a c. 1855 vocal score of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, with illustration by Leopoldo Ratti
Reason
The last of this particular type of image for now - Rigoletto will probably reappear in a couple weeks after being one short of quorum during a lull in activity, and there's a couple more monochrome opera images in the queue - but they're fairly different than the ones we've been seeing (for instance, one shows named performers in a lithograph). Anyway, this is another very early edition of Verdi's operas, with a pretty decent image with high EV (it appears Verdi took an interest in how his scores were illustrated) that fills a gap in the opera's page very well - only illustration of Act III. Not that I have a source saying it's Act III, but, seriously, it's Act III, the one - and the only one - that takes place in a bedroom, and has a scene with three characters who.. well, do that scene. By the way, this was annoyingly difficult to fix up - had some very obtrusive bright yellow markings on it that took ages to get rid of, as they intersected text and such. There's one bit I didn't restore - the Fr. on the middle right. This is because, looking at other images from early Ricordi editions, that Fr. should be followed by a number, and I found two Ricordi Traviata scores, and each had a different number there. That's a sign that you should leave it be, with the evidence of damage. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:31, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Articles in which this image appears
La traviata
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Theatre
Creator
Leopoldo Ratti, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata title page - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:11, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]