Description Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 41.7 x 33.1 cm (16.42 x 13.03 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, ROMAN HALL, CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG, 18TH CENTURY THEATRE, THEATRICAL INTERIOR | PCO-B9-28 BACKGROUND INFORMATION From the series Stage Designs of the New Amsterdam Schouwburg, 1787?1794; scene from the tragedy Titus by Pierre Laurent Buirette de Belloy (Dutch translation by J. Nomsz, Amsterdam 1765). Published by Jan Willem Smit with privilege granted by the City of Amsterdam. State: A proof ed. of just the stage, without the surrounding theatre and audience. Reference: FMH 4288-10; Atlas van Stolk 4233-6; Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-84.873. 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. 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.
