Title print for the series of four prints on the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on the Keizersgracht, May 11, 1772. Father Time pulls aside the curtain of the ruined stage to reveal the burning theater. In the midst of the ruins sits the mournful personification of the Amsterdam Schouwburg with the city's coat of arms and a burned beehive, from which the bees have escaped, in her hands. Below the stage a cartouche with the title and the well-known verse by Vondel ('De waereld is een speeltooneel: elk speelt zyn rol en krygt zyn deel'). To the left and right a six-line verse in Dutch (left

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