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    Museum collections / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654 by Herman Saftleven II
    Herman Saftleven II. View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654, 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00021472

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    View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654

    by Herman Saftleven II

    Provenance

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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    Artist
    Herman Saftleven II (Dutch, Rotterdam 1609–1685 Utrecht)
    Date
    17th century
    Medium
    Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
    Dimensions
    sheet: 9 13/16 x 29 1/2 in. (24.9 x 74.9 cm)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawings
    Department
    Drawings and Prints
    Credit line
    Purchase, Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, by exchange, and The Mnuchin Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey and Werner H. Kramarsky Gifts, 1995
    Accession no.
    1995.197

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