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Walvis gestrand bij Berckhey, 1598
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The whale (potvis) stranded on 3 February 1598 on the beach at Berckhey between Katwijk and Scheveningen. With many visitors on the beach, in the foreground some riders, behind the animal a procession of people and wagons, to the left the sea. With inscriptions of three times two lines in Latin and three times four lines in Dutch.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWalvis gestrand bij Berckhey, 1598. 1598. Jacob Matham. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
