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Title Page for: The Great Theatre of Confusions, Shown in Amsterdam and Elsewhere, in the Summer of the Year 1787
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Title print with five depictions of events in the summer of 1787. Centrally, the detention of the carriage with Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia at Goejanverwellesluis, 28 June 1787. Half-title for the second part of a book on the disturbances in Amsterdam between the Patriots and the Orangists in 1787.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTitelpagina voor: Het groot toneel van verwarringen, in Amsterdam en elders vertoond, in de zomer des jaars 1787. 1789 - 1791. Carel Jacob de Huyser. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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