In the middle the Tree of Orange containing medallions with the portraits of the stadholder, his wife and children and (on the trunk) those of his ancestors William I through IV. On the flowers are Latin words. The tree is protected by the Prussian eagle. Top left the All Seeing Eye. On the left is the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in the guise of Mars. On his left is a putto with a shield like Hercules and on the right a putto with a garland of flowers, forming a Latin text and some initials. Below him fasces. Two other putti near the tree. On the right, Count Bentinck as the Republic with the constitution in book form under his arm and the coats of arms of Zeeland and Holland on his robe. Behind him Mercury with the freedom hat on a spear and the seven arrows of the provinces. In the distance a river with a few townscapes, Allegory of the recovery of Stadholder William V, 1787 The orange tree protected from the storm or symbolic memorial to the happy revolution in the United Netherlands (...)., print maker: Franciscus Sansom, (mentioned on object), print maker: Hendrik Roosing, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Joseph Vitez, (mentioned on object), print maker: Rotterdam, print maker: Noord-Nederland, intermediary draughtsman: Noord-Nederland, Noord-Nederland, 1787, paper, etching, engraving, h 445 mm × w 308 mm
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