Allegory of the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, 1772, Title print for print series: The fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, 1772, Schouwburg (title on object), The fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, 1772 (series title), Title print for the series of four prints about the fire in the Amsterdam Theater on the Keizersgracht on May 11, 1772. Father Time pulls aside the curtain of the ruined stage to reveal the burning theater. Amid the ruins sits the sad personification of the Amsterdam Theater with the city's coat of arms and a burnt beehive, from which the bees have escaped, in her hands

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