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The Wives of the Stadtholders: an exhibition

The publication in EMLO of the correspondences of the wives of six seventeenth-century stadtholders offers an unprecedented opportunity to analyse female power and influence in the political circles of the Dutch Republic at the Orange and Stuart courts in The Hague and their counterpart at the Frisian court in Leeuwarden. This virtual exhibition sets out biographical information for each of these six women, focusing upon a selection of their letters to demonstrate the different types of correspondence and spheres of activity in which they were involved. In addition, it describes and illustrates the physical centres of power — the palaces in which they lived, worked, and raised their families.

Battle of Malplaquet (1709)

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Title

Battle of Malplaquet (1709)

Description

Map of the battle at Malplaquet, where the French were defeated by the allied forces, on September 11th, 1709. Illustration in: J. Lamigue, Het leven van Zyne Hoogheit Johan Willem Friso, dl. II, p. 142/143.

Creator

Matthijs Pool

Source

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Date

Between 1714 and 1716

Rights

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Type

Etching

Coverage

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.470387

Image

Map of the Battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709

Part of Collection

Citation

Matthijs Pool, “Battle of Malplaquet (1709),” The Wives of the Stadtholders: an exhibition, accessed January 15, 2026, http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/sw/items/show/47.

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