Johannes de Witt (via Arend van Buchell) "Sketch of the Swan Theatre" (1596)
In 1596, the Dutch student Johannes de Witt went to a play at the Swan Theatre and made a sketch of the theatre. His friend, Arend van Buchell, copied the drawing, which is the version displayed here. It is one of the most important visual documents in Elizabethan theatre history, because it is the only surviving contemporary depiction of the interior of a theatre from that time, and it gives us our best idea of what the Globe Theatre may have looked like.