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            "inscription": "lower left, in plate: L. Bakhuizen fec: et exc: cum Privil: ord. Holland: et West-Frisiæ. ; lower right, in plate: L BAKH  1701[reversed] ; lower left, in graphite: D8. ; lower right, in graphite: 8"
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