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Plate, Painted with a Poem on Prince Willem V
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Ceramic with portraits of Stadholder William V and his wife Wilhelmina of Prussia, c. 1780-1795.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineBord, beschilderd met een gedicht op prins Willem V. 1788. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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