Lyk-Staetsie Van Zyne Doorluchtigste Hoogheid Den Heere Willem Carel Hendrik Friso, Prince Van Orange En Nassau. Graef Van Catzenelleboogen, Vianden, Dietz, Spiegelberg, Buuren, Leerdam En Cuilenburg; Marquis Van Terveere En Vlissinge; Baron Van Breda, Bielestein, De Stad Grave En Landen Van Kuyck, Ysselstein, Cranendonk, Eindhoven En Liesveldt; Heere Van Breedevoort, Geertruidenberg, Willemstadt, De Clundert, St. Martensdyk, Turnhout, Zevenbergen, Steenbergen, De Hooge En Laege Swaluwe, Naeltwyk, Dietz, Grimbergen, Herstal, Arlay, Noseroy, St. Vith, Butgenbag, Daesburg En Warneton; Erf-En Vryheer Van 'T Eylandt Amelandt; Erf-Burg-Graef Van Antwerpen En Besancon; Erf-Maerschalk Van Hollandt; Erf-Stadhouder, Capitein-Generael En Admiral Van De Vereenigde Nederlanden; Gouverneur Generael Van Oost-En Westindien, Ridder Van Den Orden Van De Kousse-Bandt, &c. &c. &c. Gehouden den IV. Februari MDCCLII. Naeuwkeuriglyk nagetekent door P. van Cuyk, Junior. en in het Kooper gebragt Door J. Punt.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/4438
Imprint
In 's Gravenhage,: By Pieter Gosse Junior, Boekverkoper van Haere Koninglyke Hoogheyd, En Nicolaes Van Daalen, Boekverkooper in de Hoogstraet., M.DCC.LV.
Physical Description
40 p., 40 dble. pl.; 517 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.p.] - [Text] - Lyst Van De Heeren Intekenaers / Liste Des Souscripteurs; [colophon] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
All plates except no. 40 are signed as drawn by P. v. Cuyck jun. and engraved by J. Punt.
The title-page vignette is signed as designed, drawn and engraved by J. Betoet [?].
The printer is named in the colophon: 'A La Haye, De l'Imprimerie de Daniel Monnier, MDCCLV'.
References
J. Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies: state entries and royal funerals in the Low Countries (1971). A survey of pageantry was B. Holme, Princely feasts and festivals: five centuries (1988).
Summary Note
The publication-date of 1755 is given on title-page and colophon. Earlier dates are carried by the plates - 1752 (pl. 1-13), 1753 (pl. 14-24) or 1754 (pl. 25-39) (pl. 40 is undated).
The plates show the funeral procession of Willem IV from the Hague to Delft. Plate 40 is a plan of the New Church at Delft.
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'Pageant - Funeral Procession Of William Prince Of Orange'. Bound with one other.