Allegory on the return of the kidnapped objects of art and science in Antwerp, 1815, Allegory on the return of the kidnapped objects of art and science in Antwerp, 1815. A wagon with painting boxes enters the city through the Keizerspoort of Antwerp. In the left foreground, the city virgin of Antwerp conveys the good news of the return of the objects to the personification of Art, who sits mourning in a tent. On the right, the artist Verellen captures the scene, observed by the publisher Groenewoud. In the clouds sits the triumvirate, the heroes of Waterloo: the Prince of Orange, Blücher and Wellington., print, print maker: Adriaan Gerrit van Prooijen, after drawing by: Jean Joseph Verellen, Netherlands, 1821, paper, etching, height, 548 mm × width, 679 mm
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