Birth of future King Willem III, 1817, Allegory of the birth of Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk, the prince of Orange (later King William III), op 19 February 1817. A child crawls out of the burst shell of an orange apple, the fruit of an orange, and is decorated in a flat dish with symbolic figures, with the arms of the Netherlands and Prussia on the left. Back left a clock with the text: Il est né. On the right a night sky, infant, baby, clock, fruits: orange, Willem III (king of the Netherlands), Joannes Josephus Wolff (mentioned on object), Netherlands, paper, engraving, h 466 mm
Birth of future King Willem III, 1817, Allegory of the birth of Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk, the prince of Orange (later King William III), op 19 February 1817. A child crawls out of the burst shell of an orange apple, the fruit of an orange, and is decorated in a flat dish with symbolic figures, with the arms of the Netherlands and Prussia on the left. Back left a clock with the text: Il est né. On the right a night sky, infant, baby, clock, fruits: orange, Willem III (king of the Netherlands), Joannes Josephus Wolff (mentioned on object), Netherlands, paper, engraving, h 466 mm × w 350 mm
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