Vasco de Gama character

Published October 30, 2012 at 501 × 783 in Waltz Across Textiles

Vasco de Gama, from Meyerbeer’s opera L’Africaine, which premiered in 1865. I know nothing about this opera, but I love the embroidered detail on his cloak!

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