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Amsterdam. DELFT. 38. Route. 313
The effigy of the prince in white marble lies on a black marble sarco-
beneath supported by four clustered pillars and six
i marble. In the niches of the corner-
Liberty is represented with a sceptre,
utiendrat pieté ef justice’; Justice
ibed William’s favourite motto,
with a lion’s hide and a twig
the Bible in one ae and é a minia ature
aced 2 aoeena statue i in CHE Dae:
mi ilitary nccoutrement, while at the feet
spread win The dog, on which, in
ecumbent figure rest, is placed there
ourite dog, which was the means of saving
was attacked at night by two Spanish assassins
the monument is the burial-place of nearly all the
of Oran down to the present day. — In the am-
tomb of Prince Ereder ck William
in Padua), with a relief by Canova.
William I. (d. 4813 in Berlin; comp.
but not erected iil] 1905,
floor, by the N. wall of the choir,
p. 811), and adjacent is his marble
tomb of Hugo Grotius (
by H. van Zwoll (1781).
narket-place, in front of the church, is a bronze Statue of
( p.311), by Th. Stracké, ; 11886. — The Srap-
, 4), on the W. of the market- place, r restored in the
e style by H. 7 after a fire in 1618, has an an-
Gothic belfry.
INTERI (visitors ri right in the meat tou)
no admission on § ; r 2-Troomn ntains e corpor-
i ebusiers) by i van airtel (1611), pepe 6 persons,
full of life and energy, but inartistically grouped; also a cor-
i gesticulating figu by J. W. Delf (1592), and another
iL . — In the council-room on the first floor are portraits
inces William I., Maurice, Philip William, and Frederick Henry
and of Counts William Le and Ernest Casimir of Nassan,
small
The Town Hospital (Gasthu . B, C, 5) pos ses (in a oe
on the ground-floor) an anatomical picture (comp. p. J 323), one
the earliest paintings of the kind, executed together by the ta
Mierevelts in 1617. Entrance in the Brabantsche Turfmarkt; visitors
ring at the door marked ‘1896’ (small fee).
Near the old Rotterdam Gate r the Arsenal (P1. B, 5, 6), a
gloomy building, adorned with the arms of the old Dutel h Re-
public (1692). — Opposite stands the old warehouse of the Dutch
Ty 1st India Company (1631), now a military storehouse. — Pictur-
esque view from the Zuidwal (P1. B, 6).
2 may be taken from the Zuidwal by crossing the
canal to the left. aud BD skirting the E, side of the
picturesque Oost-Poort (Pl. A) and through the gardens
mm the Oost-Singel (Pl. B, ©, 2) to the ages Gate (Pi. A, 2). In the old
cemetery outside the ies if near the Watertoren, is the erave of Karl
Wilhelm Naundorff (Pl. A, 2; d. 1845), a German impostor who gave him-
elf out as Louis XVII. @ 1795 in Paris), son of Louis XVI. and Marie An-
oinette.
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