Print Description
Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: D&C BLAUW IV.
Sheet size: 41.8 x 33.1 cm (16.46 x 13.03 inch). Image size: 41.8 x 33.1 cm. (16.46 x 13.03 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
THEATRE, STAGE DESIGN, AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG, GYSBREGHT VAN AEMSTEL, VONDEL, WINTER FOREST, 18TH CENTURY STAGE SCENERY | PCO-B9-23
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Series: Stage sets of the new Amsterdam Schouwburg (1787?1794). Published by Jan Willem Smit, Amsterdam, with privilege granted by the city council of Amsterdam.
Reference: N. Sluijter-Seijffert, Oud Holland 90 (1976), fig. 28; Frederik Muller, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen, vol. II, no. 4288/14.
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 draughtsman and painter, especially active as a designer of book illustrations and theatre scenery. Andries van der Groen was a Dutch painter and stage designer, known for landscape-based theatrical decors in the late 18th century.
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