3-028-547 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Monument of King William I. of Holland, at The Hague, 1870. Monument at Plein 1813. commemorating victory over Napoleon and the founding of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 'A national monument in honour of William of Orange, first King of the Netherlands, has lately been erected at the Hague...The monument is, both in structure and design, worthy of the distinguished personage and the important historical event it is intended to commemorate. Two flights of stone steps lead up to an extensive basement level, on which is erected a massive pedestal supporting a statue of King William I. and some allegorical figures. The figure of Justice sits at one side of the King and that of Law or Policy on the other. The figure of Batavia, as we suppose, grasping the sheaf of arrows, emblematical of the confederation of the United Provinces, holding also the national flag and supported by a lion, stands on the top. The sides of the pedestal are adorned with relievos of the most important events in the King's life, and amongst them is one of his landing, while he was Prince of Orange, at Scheveningen, from her Majesty's ship Warrior, on March 31, 1813, after an exile of nineteen years'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.