Print Description
Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 42.5 x 33 cm (16.73 x 12.99 inch). Image size: 24.2 x 20 cm. (9.53 x 7.87 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. Paper a bit folded at paper edges, with an occaional small tear. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
THEATRE, STAGE DESIGN, GOTHIC PALACE, MEDIEVAL INTERIOR, AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG, 18TH CENTURY THEATRE, ARCHITECTURAL DECOR | PCO-B9-26
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From the series Stage Designs of the New Amsterdam Schouwburg, 1787-1794. Used for stage performances depicting contemporary Dutch urban life.
State: A proof ed. of just the stage, without the surrounding theatre and audience.
Reference: FMH 4288-[b6]; Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-84.881.
Biography engraver: Izaak Jansz. de Wit (1744-1809) and Pieter Hendrik Jonxis (1757-1843) were Dutch engravers active in the late 18th and early 19th century in the Northern Netherlands. They collaborated on large theatrical and architectural prints, including stage decor designs for the Amsterdam Schouwburg.
Biography artist: Jan Bulthuis (1750-1801) was a Dutch draftsman and painter. Bulthuis was born in Groningen. He was the son of Claas Bulthuis and Weasley Ten Huising. As a painter he was trained by Jurriaan Andriessen and as a draftsman by Johannes Wieringa. Initially he painted landscapes but later began to concentrate on the signs of urban and rural sites. He was employed in his hometown of Groningen and from 1780 in Amsterdam. In 1785 he enrolled at the Stadstekenacademie (City Drawing School) where he won a gold medal. He made a series of drawings for the description of the Zaanlandsche villages of Adriaan Loosjes, which was issued. In 1794 his drawings were also included in the published 1968 Frisian “Vaderlandsche faces”. Bulthuis died on 29 May 1801 in Amsterdam at the age of 50. Jan Gerard Waldorp (1740-1808) was a Dutch artist and museum curator. He received all paying visitors to the Nationale Kunst-Galerij in the Hague (1800-1805), one of the forerunners of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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