Original copper engraving, Mock or Joke Print, statue the father of the Netherlands according to a sketch by J. Oudaan. ca 1619, maker unknown, Statue Johan van Oldenbarnevelt trampling on prince Maurits, situated in the Binnenhof in The Hague The Netherlands. Sheet size 17.5 x 27.5 cm. blanc on verso, Own coll.
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DINASTA LEGIONVM DVCTOR
Original copper engraving ca 1650 on handcrafted paper of Willem van Hees, Antwerp June 11 1601, Brussels, March 4, 1690, was a Jesuit, architect, mathematician, astronomer, poet and draftsman. He was also the chaplain of Archduke Leopold Willem. Sheet size:
ORANGIJ PRINCEPS
Original copper engraving ca 1650 on handcrafted paper of Maurits van Oranje, Dillenburg, 14 november 1567 – Den Haag, 23 april 1625 was stadtholder of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Friesland from 1585 at the earliest until his death in 1625. Before he became Prince of Orange upon the death of his eldest half-brother Philip William, in 1618, he was known as Maurits van Nassau.
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