Antique Master Print-THEATRE-DECOR-LONDON-STREET-Brouwer-Andriessen-Numan-1789

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 42.3 x 33 cm (16.65 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. Trimmed to the plate. Irregular paper edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

THEATRE, STAGE DESIGN, STREET SCENE, LONDON, AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG, 18TH CENTURY THEATRE, ARCHITECTURAL BACKDROP | PCO-B9-28

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From the series Stage Designs of the New Amsterdam Schouwburg, 1787?1794; scene from the play De drie landbouwers by Jacques Marie Boutet de Monvel (Dutch translation by Henri Jean Roullaud).

State: A proof ed. of just the stage, without the surrounding theatre and audience.

Reference: FMH 4288-[b12]; Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-84.884.

Biography engraver: Cornelis Brouwer (1733-1803) was an engraver active in the Northern Netherlands in the late 18th century; active in Amsterdam from 1765. Worked for Ploos van Amstel (q.v.) since 1775.

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. Jurriaan Andriessen (1742- 1819) was a Dutch decorative painter and graphic artist. Hermanus Numan (1744-1820) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, pastellist, etcher, engraver, watercolorist, set painter, decorator (interiors), art theorist, and publisher.