Picture No | 10018024 |
Date | first performed 1865 |
Description | Shipboard scene from Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine |
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A shipboard scene from Giacomo Meyerbeer's last opera L'Africaine. Act 3 scene 6 is depicted here: while a storm rages, the warriors of Selika, Queen of Madagascar, board Don Pedro's ship, killing the Portuguese crew, though Vasco de Gama survives for the time being.
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Source | Engraving by an unnamed artist in 'L'Illustration', 1865. |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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