[Alexander Ver Huell]

Drawing in pen and ink on large folio, titled, signed and dated 1865 in pen (small tears in bottom margin).

With depiction of two men digging at the foot of the statue of Willem of Orange (the statue on the Plein in Den Haag) and one man trying to chop down a tree with the text "Java" in its crown. In the foreground the text "Nationaliteit" and rocks with the names Helmers and Bilderdijk, the clouds have the shape of a lion. Given the almost exact similarity to another copy (with "nationnaliteit" instead of "nationaliteit") that we traced, Ver Huell drew the design several times. With: "Hazardspel". Litho in the style of Alexander Ver Huell, published by J.H. Hebhard en Comp., 1846, 33.5 x 40 cm. (strenghtened with thin paper on the spine). See Gouda Quint 67: "Twintig tafereelen uit het leven van een speler, elk met onderschrift (...)." The game was discontinued by Minerva on 17 November 1846 (scene at bottom), after which the Minervans bought the litho en masse, so that there were no copies left to put into the Leidsche Studentenalmanak of that year, the intended publication of the image. And with 12 other lithos, including Gouda Quint 66 (two lithos of which the second as printed can be found in a deluxe copy of the Feestnummer ter gelegenheid van het vijftig-jarig bestaan van het Leidsche Studentencorps, 1 maart 1889) and finally with a quote handwritten by Ver Huell from Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris" (see Gouda Quint 119).