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Theatre with Stage Set: The Garden
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Theatre with Stage Set: The Garden

Cornelis Brouwer · 1789 · etching; engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Theatrical performance in the new Amsterdam Schouwburg with the curtain scenery The Garden, with a scene from Blaise and Babet. The scenery printed from a separate plate within a renewed passe-partout with the hall, side boxes, pillars with statues and the facade of the stage. In the caption a six-line verse. Part of the series of fourteen theatre sceneries of the new Amsterdam Schouwburg, 1787–1794. Subject headings within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Fine Arts, Theatre, Scenery for the Schouwburg.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineSchouwburg met toneeldecor: De Tuin. 1789. Cornelis Brouwer. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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