Caption:
Birth of future King Willem III, 1817, Allegory of the birth of Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk, the prince of Orange (later King William III), op 19 February 1817. A child crawls out of the burst shell of an orange apple, the fruit of an orange, and is decorated in a flat dish with symbolic figures, with the arms of the Netherlands and Prussia on the left. Back left a clock with the text: Il est né. On the right a night sky, infant, baby, clock, fruits: orange, Willem III (king of the Netherlands), Joannes Josephus Wolff (mentioned on object), Netherlands, paper, engraving, h 466 mm × w 350 mm