Allegory at Willem V as a patron of the Leiden Academy; Wilhelmo Quinto Serenissimo Arausionensis et Nassaviae Principi, Necnon Academiae Lugduno Batavae oliglichtimis curatoribus sacrum. Allegoric vignette with Stadholder Willem V As a patron of the university, on the occasion of the second centenary of the creation of the University of Leiden, 8 February 1775. The city survey of Leiden guides the prince to Minerva at a colonnade on the castle. On the left the flow god of the Rhine, right a weapent probe, in the foreground putti with books. Under the vignette a verse of four lines in Latin.

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