View of a dike breach. From the bank, a group of people, including a man on horseback, are looking at two people who have climbed onto the roof of a house to escape the flood. Below the scene five lines of Dutch text with in the middle a coat of arms on which two dogs are holding a coat of arms with a red lion, Dijkdoorbraak in Ochten Doorbraak in Neder-Betuwe, occurred on the j: March 1784:, print maker: Roeland van Eynden, (mentioned on object), Roeland van Eynden, (mentioned on object), publisher: Roeland van Eynden, (mentioned on object), Betuwe, 1789, paper, etching, h 335 mm × w 409 mm

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