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The Hole in the St. Anthony's Dike near Amsterdam
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Jan van Goyen must have visited the site of the disaster shortly after it occurred. He recorded the breach in the dike and the flooded countryside in a sketchbook that was disassembled centuries later. This detailed drawing is based on one of those small sketches. For unknown reasons, he added leaves to the trees here, even though at the beginning of March they would still have been bare.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineHet gat in de Sint-Anthonisdijk bij Amsterdam. 1651. Jan van Goyen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
