Allegory on the elevation of William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau, to hereditary stadtholder, Title page for: Pieter Le Clercq, Histories of the United Netherlands, 1753, Allegory to the elevation of Willem IV to hereditary stadtholder, 1747. He sits on a throne and receives of the Dutch Virgin the state administration. Peace is in the clouds and Fama blows a trumpet with the banner Historia Belgii. In the foreground putti refer to the Wind Trade of 1720. In the background Minerva and Mercurius mourn at the tomb of the prince who died in 1751. An eight-line Dutch text in the bottom margin

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