Large sheet with an oval allegorical representation and a two-line time verse at the inauguration of the new Amsterdam Theatre on the Leidseplein, 15 September 1774. This city theatre was built to replace the theatre on Keizersgracht, which burned down in 1772, and burned down itself in 1890. In the centre, the personification of the Amsterdam Theatre welcomes a new beehive, a man and two children. To the right of her two putti unrolling an image of the new building. In the foreground books and writings with plays. Apollo, the muses and Pegasus on the Parnassus, the opening of the new

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