3:100
l.o. A.N.G.
l.o. Sept. 14, 1890

ink and watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard 412 x 341 mm

lower right 1608-1611 Entrance to Stock Exchange North Side
r.o. Demolished 1835-36

Upright entryway, upholstered with figures.

The Old Stock Exchange is discussed by Godefroy in 'De Opmerker' 27 (1892) p. 50: 'Of the Stock Exchange, ordered by H. de Keyser, I have drawn 2 plans:
1 As it was executed in the years 1608-11, to which I have added the façade on the Rokin, with the store houses, the bridge and the tower [inv.nr. 66]. In one of those store houses was located the bookseller and publisher Cornelis Lodewijk van der Plasse, with whom, among other things, the works of the poet Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero have come into the light. The open space of the Beurs was then 6 arches wide and 12 arches long. The 2nd plan shows the shape of the Beurs after its enlargement in the years 1667-68 [inv.no. 69]. The open space then became 17 arches long, and as a result the tower and the store houses were demolished, and the bridge was made into a crowded entrance and passage, which I remember very well, because when it was demolished in 1836-37 I was 14 to 15 years old. The facade on the Rokin was changed in 1667 in the spirit of the time and acquired a different character. The upper part of the demolished tower, with its striking clock, was placed on the middle of the roof; the carillon was removed. The entrance on the Vijgendam side (the so-called 'stairs of the Stock Exchange') belongs to the original construction of H. de Keyser, and I have added it on a larger scale [inv.nr. 64]. The niches around the open square of the Stock Exchange on the first floor were, according to Vondel's verses at the inauguration of the Town Hall on the Dam, intended to place the statues of the 36 Counts of Holland and Zeeland. They have remained empty throughout. The galleries were covered with stone cross vaults, above which the space on the first floor was used as workshops for the city carpenter's store, later rented out for retailing, also of prints and books (a.o. the publisher P. Schenk), then, under King Louis Napoleon, furnished for the offices of the then established 'Ledger of the National Debt', and finally in 1818 under King William I for Academy of Fine Arts (for the architecture the architect Fr. Tilman Suys, succeeded by Mr. Van der Jagt and M.G. Tetar van Elven). There were also the annual exhibitions of paintings and other works of art during the fair [inv. no. 68]. Lighting was provided by skylights in the roof, and was very good. The semicircular niches for the statues and the square niches between them in the inner walls had only a few light openings, as can be seen on the plate in Dapper's and Philip von Zesen's Description of Amsterdam (1663-64). The city architect, Mr. A.W. Weissman, has provided me with 2 drawings showing the latter division. Both side walls in the Beursstegen were blind walls, with extended chimney flues, serving the boiler rooms in the vaulted cellars under the galleries of the Beurs.

See inv.nos. 66-69