Title

View of the fire on the stage of the Schouwburg in Amsterdam on 11 May 1772, (1772-1799). Creator: Anon.

Caption

View of the fire on the stage of the Schouwburg in Amsterdam on 11 May 1772, (1772-1799). Blazing curtain on the right side of the stage. The actors, the musicians and the audience are in panic. (18 people were killed, and 22 nearby houses were destroyed).

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A87_492

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

92,2Mb (6,0Mb) / 23,6in x 15,1in / 7092 x 4542 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe scenic people music arts playhouse entertainment audience danger musician musicians art box theatre dangerous smoke burning fire flame flames museum Netherlands Dutch color stage panic dramatic curtain curtains boxes scenery century vista orchestra print concept actors acting stage set actor watercolour peril Colour Thespian panicking on fire 18th century Eighteenth Century Rijksmuseum TGN theatre box Anon Anonymous orchestra pit Schouwburg paper soft furnishing Heritage Art Print Low Countries cardboard watercolour (paint) deck paint prepared paper Jacobus Adrianus Crajenschot Crajenschot Jacobus Adrianus