Theater Interior with Performance Taking Place
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1740–60
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format. Groups of spectators watch a theatrical performance showing a representation of Inferno, with fire and demons. Actors fill the decorated stage; additional spctators in opera boxes at left and right sides. Five large chandeliers hanging from the theater ceiling, which is draped with festoons. Stage design engraved separately.
place: label: made in
content: Europe and USA
label: made in
content: Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-1438
objectType: label: Type
content: theater
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.4 × 44.2 cm (11 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.)