Sheet with an oval allegorical representation and a two-line time verse on the inauguration of the new Amsterdamse Schouwburg on the Leidseplein, 15 September 1774. This city theater was built to replace the theater on Keizersgracht that burned down in 1772 and burned itself down in 1890. In the center welcomes the personification of the Amsterdam Theatre, with on her lap a new beehive, a man and two children. To her right, two putti unroll an image of the new building. In the foreground books and writings with theatrical works. Ahead Apollo, the muses and Pegasus on the Parnassus, A time capsule on the inauguration of the new Amsterdam theater, 1774 On the inauguration of the new theater in Amsterdam, the fifteenth September., print maker: Noach van der Meer (II), (mentioned on object), Noach van der Meer (II), (mentioned on object), Joannes Franciscus Delsing, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1774 - 1775, paper, etching, engraving, h 264 mm × w 168 mm