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Title: [Antique print, handcolored etching] VUE DE LA MAISON DU PRINCE D'ORANGE/Paleis Huis ten Bosch, published ca. 1750.
Description: Hand colored optical view of the palace of the Prince of Orange’s House in the Wood near the Hague (Paleis Huis ten Bosch, huidig woonhuis van Koning Willem Alexander en Maxima). Carriages and people conversing in the foreground. Titled below in French with the address. 'Vue de la Maison dans le Bois du cote du Jardin de SAS le Prince d' Orange Stadhouder des Provinces Unies, &c. &c. &c., Dediee a Son Altesse Serenissime le Prince d'Orange... Pasquier rue des Pretres S.t Severin, Chez le Vitrier. Attenant du grand Portail.' The title above is mirrored: 'VUE DE LA MAISON DU PRINCE D'ORANGE'. as it was supposed to be looked at through a zograscope. Handcolored etching on paper, with small margins; total: 270 x 409 mm; nicely hand colored in red, blue, yellow, green and light blue in the sky. A tear in the sky to the right, repaired on the verso.

Keywords: Dutch Royals|Estates|Hand colored|Optical prints|the Hague