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Explosion of the Stoelemat in Bergen op Zoom, 1831
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Explosion of the Stoelemat in Bergen op Zoom, 1831

T.C. Hoffers · 1831 · letterpress printing; houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Description of the explosion in the gunpowder magazine of laboratory Stoelemat in Bergen op Zoom, 29 March 1831. Text in three columns with below it a poem in four columns. At the top three old sixteenth-century woodcuts with two depictions of a city in flames and a third of a city struck by fire and stones from the sky.

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printgunpowder disasterBergen op Zoom
Credit lineOntploffing van Stoelemat te Bergen op Zoom, 1831. 1831. T.C. Hoffers. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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