Description Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 41.5 x 33 cm (16.34 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, MILITARY CAMP, TENTS, CLASSICAL DRAMA, AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG, 18TH CENTURY THEATRE | PCO-B9-28 BACKGROUND INFORMATION From the series Stage Designs of the New Amsterdam Schouwburg, 1787?1794; scene from the tragedy Achilles by Balthasar Huydecoper, Amsterdam 1719. State: A proof ed. of just the stage, without the surrounding theatre and audience. Reference: FMH 4288/5; Atlas van Stolk 4233/5; Rijksmuseum KOG-ZG-1-17B-94. Biography engraver: Pieter Hendrik Jonxis (1757-1843) was a Dutch engraver active in the late 18th and early 19th century in the Northern Netherlands. He 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. 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.
