The Breach of the Saint Anthony’s Dike near Amsterdam, Pieter Nolpe, after Willem Schellinks, 1651
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The severe weather has reached its dramatic climax. The storm that struck from the northwest buffeted the dike causing it to burst and bring water crashing down onto the low-lying land – recently reclaimed polders. Nearby Amsterdam was also not spared. The water that sloshed over the dikes in the city itself reached such a high level that one could move about the streets by boat.
