Time verse on the inauguration of the new Amsterdam Theater, 1774, On the inauguration of the Nieuwen Schouwburg in Amsterdam, the fifteenth of September (title on object), Sheet with an oval allegorical representation and a two-line time verse on the inauguration of the new Amsterdam Theater on Leidseplein, September 15, 1774. This city theater was built to replace the theater on the Keizersgracht that burned down in 1772 and burned down itself in 1890. In the middle the personification of the Amsterdam Theater welcomes a new beehive, a man and two children on her lap. To her right are two

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