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Flag of the fifth infantry division
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Flag of the fifth infantry division

Jan Willem Pieneman · 1846-03-24 - 1893-09-21 · painting technique; bronze (metal); wood (plant material); silk; tule

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Yellow-cream colored flag cloth trimmed with gold fringe. On the front a crowned ornate W, under which the inscription: [5DE REGI]MENT INFANTERIE; along the sides green branches with orange berries. On the parade side the crowned coat of arms of the kingdom, with a scroll bearing the motto: JE MAINTIENDRAI, held by two crowned facing lions; this whole is surrounded by two upward-curving laurel branches, tied together at the bottom by a pink ribbon; along the sides green branches with orange berries. Originally attached to a standard of black lacquered wood, on which a gilded bronze wreath of oak branches, and at the top a recumbent lion with a bundle of arrows and sword on a block of the same, on the long sides the text: KONING EN VADERLAND, surrounded by a snake, and on the short sides a crowned W.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineVaandel van het vijfde afdeling infanterie. 1846-03-24 - 1893-09-21. Jan Willem Pieneman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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