Monument depicting four scenes of the accident that befell Count Stanislaw Potocki on July 27, 1678. Top left the ship and her passengers sail from Mechelen, right the ship explodes near Willebroek, bottom left everyone tries to save themselves, right the uninjured count standing amidst the wounded and dead. Behind the monument allegorical figures, at the top the coat of arms of Potocki. Beneath the scenes inscriptions in Latin, The Accident of Count Stanislaw Potocki, 1678, print maker: Romeyn de Hooghe, (mentioned on object), Jan III Sobieski (koning van Polen), (mentioned on object), Romeyn

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