Allegory on William V as patron of the Leiden Academy, 1775, Wilhelmo Quinto Serenissimo Arausionensis et Nassaviae Principi, Necnon Academiae Lugduno Batavae (...) (title on object), Allegorical vignette with stadtholder William V as patron of the university, on occasion of the Second Centenary of the founding of the University of Leiden, February 8, 1775. The city virgin of Leiden accompanies the prince to Minerva at a colonnade on the Castle. On the left the river god of the Rhine, on the right a weapon trophy, in the foreground children with books. Below the vignette a verse of four lines
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