The Bursting of St. Anthony's Dike, 5 March 1651. Vertoninge...Amsterdam

Q: When was "The Bursting of St. Anthony's Dike, 5 March 1651. Vertoninge...Amsterdam" created?

This artwork was created 17th century.

Q: Is "The Bursting of St. Anthony's Dike, 5 March 1651. Vertoninge...Amsterdam" in the public domain?

Yes, The Bursting of St. Anthony's Dike, 5 March 1651. Vertoninge...Amsterdam is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Pieter Nolpe

17th century

Medium

Intaglio

Dimensions

13 1/4 x 20 in. (33.7 x 50.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963

Accession Number

63.617.3

Tags

WaterfallsHuman Figures

About this artwork

This seventeenth-century engraving commemorates the catastrophic flooding that occurred on March 5, 1651, when St. Anthony's Dike burst near Amsterdam. Created by Pieter Nolpe after a drawing by Willem Schellinks, the print measures approximately thirteen by twenty inches and depicts the devastating moment when a northwest storm buffeted the dike, causing it to breach and send water crashing down onto low-lying polders—recently reclaimed land—threatening Amsterdam itself. The composition combine...

About the Artist

Pieter Nolpe · 1613–1614

Comment on works: Painter; Engraver; Draftsman; Landscapes with figures; History or Religious scenes in landscapes

The Bursting of St. Anthony's Dike, 5 March 1651. Vertoninge...Amsterdam

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