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William V, Prince of Orange

Also known as: William V, Prince of Orange; primary name: William V; other name: (Prince of) Orange; other name: (Stadholder of) Holland; other name: Willem V
Details: individual; ruler; Dutch; Male
Life dates: 1748-1806
Biography: Last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (1766-95), only son of William IV Prince of Orange by Anne Princess Royal of Great Britain. In 1766, after 15 years of regency, he was invested with the Stadtholderate. In 1780 a war broke out with England and peace was not concluded till 1784.The Prince was also confronted by serious internal troubles due to the efforts of a party opposed to the Statdholderate which was however more firmly established by the armed intervention of William V's brother-in-law, Frederick William II of Prussia, in 1787. In 1788 he made an alliance with his relatives the Kings of England & Prussia, in consequence of which the French Republic declared war against him in 1793, and generals Pichegru and Jourdan overran Holland, forcing William V to take refuge in England in 1795, while the Statdholderate was abolished. In 1802 William received Fulda and other territories in compensation and died 9 April 1806 before regaining possession of Holland. He had married 4 Oct 1767 Wilhelmina daughter of Prince William of Prussia, by whom he had William 1st King of the Netherlands, Prince Frederick and Frederica, wife of Charles Duke of Brunswick.

160 related objects

drawing; fan

Museum number: 1891,0713.327 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770-1800

drawing; fan

Museum number: 1891,0713.328 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770-1800

finger-ring; cameo

Museum number: AF.1465 |
Producer name: BIOG48030 Made by:James Tassie |
Production date: 18thC(late)

medal

Museum number: G3,FD.433 |
Producer name: BIOG219175 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Gysbert van Moelingen |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1902,0504.2 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Designed by:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1752 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.8581 |
Producer name: BIOG109681 Designed by:Martin Holtzhey |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Made in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

medal

Museum number: M.8582 |
Producer name: BIOG109681 Designed by:Martin Holtzhey |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Made in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

medal

Museum number: 1906,1103.1892 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1980,1202.67 |
Producer name: BIOG219175 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Gysbert van Moelingen |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1915,0507.389 |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1924,0501.15 |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1912,0803.20 |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1992,0108.1 |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1897,0604.6 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Designed by:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1752 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1889,0303.1 |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.8584 |
Producer name: BIOG116921 Designed by:Nicolaus Van Swinderen |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Made in:Hague, The

medal

Museum number: 1897,0605.35 |
Producer name: BIOG116921 Designed by:Nicolaus Van Swinderen |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Made in:Hague, The

medal

Museum number: 1936,0408.2 |
Production date: 1770 - 1790 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1906,1103.1891 |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1865,0324.1272 |
Producer name: BIOG219927 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Adrian van Baerll |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.2132 |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1912,0803.6 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1980,1202.66 |
Producer name: BIOG219175 Designed by:Gysbert van Moelingen |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1865,0324.1157 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Engraved by:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: G3,FD.432 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Engraved by:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1766 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1912,0803.21 |
Producer name: BIOG109680 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Johann Georg Holtzhey |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.2130 |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.8583 |
Producer name: BIOG109681 Designed by:Martin Holtzhey |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Made in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

medal

Museum number: BNK,EngM.203 |
Production date: 1770 - 1806 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.8603 |
Producer name: BIOG75489 Designed by:Johann Lorenz Natter |
Production date: 1751 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: M.2129 |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

plate

Museum number: Franks.902.+ |
Cultures/periods: x14440 Qing dynasty |
Production date: 1790-1791 |
Production place: Made in:Jingdezhen |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:China

portrait medallion; cameo

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.30 |
Producer name: BIOG81101 Factory of:Wedgwood |
Production date: 1782 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

portrait medallion; cameo

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.31 |
Producer name: BIOG81101 Factory of:Wedgwood |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

portrait medallion; cameo

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.29 |
Producer name: BIOG81101 Factory of:Wedgwood |
Production date: 1782 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Nouvelles a la cour de la Grande Bretagne ou Mr Pitt annoncant ae sa Majesté la revolution en Hollan |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6408 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1795

print

Museum number: Mm,2.135 |
Producer name: After:Laurens SchermPrint made by:A Wedding |
Production date: 1766

print

Title: Willem de Vde. Portraits of Stadholders and their Family |
Museum number: 1871,1209.1666 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacob HoubrakenIntermediary draughtsman:Hendrik Pothoven |
Production date: 1754

print; broadside

Title: Zinnebeeldig Tafereel, Op de lang gewenschte en blyde Geboorte van den Erfprinsse van Oranje en Nass |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4907 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac Lodewyk de la Fargue van NieuwlandAfter:Matthias Verheyden |
Production date: 1748

print

Title: Afbeelding van de Doop-plechtigheid van Willem den V. |
Museum number: J,10.425 |
Producer name: BIOG27452 Print made by:Simon Fokke |
Production date: 1748

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Merlin |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10055 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1774

print

Museum number: 2010,7081.2503 |
Producer name: BIOG31687 Print made by:Charles Howard Hodges |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Title: Bouquet de Maximes |
Museum number: 1863,0613.53 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel ChodowieckiPublished by:E. de Bourdeaux |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Published in:Berlin (city)

print

Title: Afbeelding van het Prachtige Bal, op de zaal van het Stadhuis |
Museum number: 1871,1209.1440 |
Producer name: Print made by:Reinier VinkelesPublished by:Johannes Smit |
Production date: 1768

print; satirical print

Title: Govr Elliot giving the Spaniards a dose of hot balls for their better digestion, or Prince Nassau in |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4886 |
Producer name: BIOG153290 Published by:Thomas Colley |
Production date: 1782

print; broadside

Title: De Afgedankte Pedagoog Verklaaring Der Kunstprent, Getyteld: De Afgedankt |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4929 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1871,1209.4913 |
Producer name: BIOG147753 Print made by:Noach van der Meer II |
Production date: 1770-1794

print; satirical print

Title: Serene highness! |
Museum number: 1851,0308.34 |
Producer name: BIOG154535 Published by:W Brown |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print

Title: Returning from Pizarro!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12543 |
Producer name: BIOG31858 Published by:William Holland |
Production date: 1799

print; satirical print

Title: The frogs rejecting their king |
Museum number: 1851,0901.996 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CawseLettering engraved by:F Sansom |
Production date: 1799

print

Title: Monument ter Gedachtenis van zijn Doorluchtige Hoogheid |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4971 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ludwig PortmanAfter:Willem Kok |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print; broadside

Title: Verklaaring van de bovenstaande Konstprent. |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4931 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; broadside

Title: De Ontwaakte Leeuw Verklaaring van de Plaat |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4925 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; broadside

Title: De Werking Der Vryheids Zoonen |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4940 |
Producer name: Print made by:Leendert BrasserAfter:Frans Joseph Pfeiffer I |
Production date: 1784

print

Title: Mr Anthony Oetgens van Waveren |
Museum number: 1848,1125.224 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacob HoubrakenAfter:Thomas de Keyser |
Production date: 1760-1780

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1887,0722.84 |
Producer name: Print made by:Simon FokkePublished by:Johannes Smit |
Production date: 1768

print; broadside

Title: De Moedige En Waakzaame Leeuw Verklaaring van de Plaat... |
Museum number: 1898,0520.146 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; broadside

Title: De Vernieling Der Aristocratische Kuipeij |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4937 |
Producer name: BIOG152998 Print made by:J Hulstkamp |
Production date: 1785

print; broadside

Title: Staa, Wandelaaren! Staa! |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4934 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print

Title: William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange |
Museum number: 1861,0810.555 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Ozias Humphry |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Amsterdam in a dam'd predicament,-or-The Last Scene of the Republican Pantomime. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.372 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William the Vth. Prince of Orange, Stadt-holder of the Seven United Provinces, &c. |
Museum number: 2010,7081.2390 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard HoustonAfter:Tethart Philip Christiaan Haag |
Production date: 1736-1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Allied Powers, Un-Booting Egalitè. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12553 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Forget & Forgive or honest Jack shaking hands with and Old Acquaintance. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12554 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Print made by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Sketch of politicks in Europe 24th January 1786, birth day of the King of Prussia. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5474 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:S Hedges |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Reception in Holland. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12555 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: His Serene Highness the Prince of Orange |
Museum number: 2010,7081.2809 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward BellPublished by:Edward Orme |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The wedding night. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.866 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Pylades & Orestes. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6615 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A new Dutch Exercise |
Museum number: 1876,1014.27 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: [The Orangerie:-or-the Dutch Cupid reposing, after the fatigues of Planting.-] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6551 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Man of Feeling, in search of Indispensibles;-a Scene at the little French Milleners. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6855 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The frogs rejecting their king |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12563 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CawseLettering engraved by:F Sansom |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Fatigues of the Campaign in Flanders |
Museum number: 1851,0901.652 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The British menagerie |
Museum number: 1851,0901.818 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Guillaume V |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6481 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1772 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: De Moedige En Waakzaame Leeuw Verklaaring van de Plaat... |
Museum number: 1862,0712.751 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print

Title: Portraits of Stadholders and their Family |
Museum number: 1879,0614.752 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacob HoubrakenIntermediary draughtsman:Hendrik Pothoven |
Production date: 1754

print

Title: Aan zÿn Doorluchtigste Hoogheit Willem de Vyfde |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4916 |
Producer name: BIOG147753 Print made by:Noach van der Meer II |
Production date: 1766

print

Title: Willem de V. |
Museum number: 1879,0614.754 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter TanjéAfter:Pieter Frederik de la Croix |
Production date: 1755

print; satirical print

Title: Jupiter Bonney granting unto the Dutch frogs a king |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7470 |
Producer name: Print made by:S KnightPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1806

print; broadside

Title: Het Nut Der Burgerwapening |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4939 |
Producer name: Print made by:Abraham Jacobsz. HulkAfter:P Coijon |
Production date: 1785

print; broadside

Title: Den Door List en Geweld Aangevallen Leeuw Verklaaring van de Plaat... |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4924 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: De Tyd geeft Verandering |
Museum number: 1862,0712.756 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1871,1209.4914 |
Producer name: BIOG147753 Print made by:Noach van der Meer II |
Production date: 1770-1794

print

Title: Willem de Vyfde, Prince van Oranje, &. &. &. |
Museum number: 2010,7081.2516 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Howard HodgesAfter:Johann Friedrich August Tischbein |
Production date: 1794

print; broadside

Title: Verklaring Der Bovenstaende Prent |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4936 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Tafereel van het Stadhouderschap in de Nederlanden van Ao1565 tot 1802 |
Museum number: 1870,0625.1021 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem KokPublished by:J de Jongh |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: Dumouriez and the Hollander |
Museum number: 1925,0701.44 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1793

print

Title: De Prins word het Stadhouderschap ... opgedraagen |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4915 |
Producer name: BIOG40291 Print made by:Cornelis van Noorde |
Production date: 1766

print

Title: Willem V / Prins van Oranje |
Museum number: 1940,1007.3.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Carel Christiaan Antony LastPrinted by:Desguerrois & Co |
Production date: 1855-1876

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Baron Chasse haranguing certain volunteers in the The highest man in France |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12324 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert SeymourPrinted by:Maguire, Lemercier & Co |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Pylades & Orestes. |
Museum number: J,3.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1859,0709.2932 |
Producer name: BIOG49832 Print made by:Reinier Vinkeles |
Production date: 1768

print

Museum number: 1870,0625.1039 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter TanjéAfter:Theodoor van Thulden |
Production date: 1757

print

Title: Les Cyclopes |
Museum number: 1870,0625.1034 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter TanjéAfter:Theodoor van Thulden |
Production date: 1757

print; visiting-card; invitation; seal

Museum number: D,1.762-778.+ |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1798-1817

print; satirical print

Title: The man of feeling, in search of indispensibles; -a scene in the little French milleners |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1015 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The British menagerie |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10346 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Orangerie, or the Dutch Cupid reposing, after the fatigues of Planting |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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