Glorious glass at StJohn's Church, Gouda . Fig. 13. Prince William ofOrange - fragment fromwindow 25 - Dirck janszVerheyden 1601 Photo This window appears as the last in the westernpart of the church, where it took its place in 1603among the windows of the other Dutch townswhich carried on the struggle for freedom. Hollandincorporates the memory of the Prince in the joyof the victory and the prosperity of the common-wealth, the foundation of which was laid by hisstatesmanship. This last window to be placed in the church is atriumphal arch for the Prince, but fortunatelynot composed from
Glorious glass at StJohn's Church, Gouda . Fig. 13. Prince William ofOrange - fragment fromwindow 25 - Dirck janszVerheyden 1601 Photo This window appears as the last in the westernpart of the church, where it took its place in 1603among the windows of the other Dutch townswhich carried on the struggle for freedom. Hollandincorporates the memory of the Prince in the joyof the victory and the prosperity of the common-wealth, the foundation of which was laid by hisstatesmanship. This last window to be placed in the church is atriumphal arch for the Prince, but fortunatelynot composed from symbolic ideas; it is built upfrom facts and persons of the country for which 22. Fici 12 Window 25: 1 Prince Wiilia n of Orange. 2 probably burgoraastejVan der Wert or Leyden, 3 boy stooping with a basket of white loaves,?i witli .i barrel ol herrings on his shoulder, 5 silhouette of Delft. 6 burningchurch of Soeterwoude, 7 silhouette of Leyden, Just Over the man with thebasket of herrings admiral Boisot, leader of the Watcrbcggart,. is seen. Drawing W. Hogervorst he suffered and the men with whom he triumphal arch is built up from Dutch towersand mills, the green meadows, the greyish-bluewater, the soldiers, citizens and magistrates ofHolland.
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