Palace Honselaarsdijk changes owner / Sale of the Prussian lordships to Anna of Hanover, 1754

Scenes from national history. Top: View of the exterior of Honselaarsdijk Palace with a cheerful crowd during the change of ownership, 1754. The palace was sold by Frederick the Great to Anna of Hannover on February 21, 1754, as part of the Prussian lordships in Holland. Bottom: Four people around a table with documents during the transfer of the Prussian lordships in Holland, which Anna of Hannover bought as a whole for ƒ 700,000 for her then five-year-old son, hereditary stadtholder Willem V. She made Honselaarsdijk Palace available to her daughter, Princess Carolina. Two scenes on one plate.