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The Negociator's   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Negociator's
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English: Satire on the political situation in Europe at the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession, in particular on Robert Walpole's unwillingness to participate. The rulers are described inverses below which are numbered to correspond with their words in speech ballons: 1. Frederick the Great of Prussia dressed as a Hussar and standing on "Silesia" (which he had already occupied); 2. George II sits at the lower end of a see-saw on which Augustus III, King of Poland rises; 3. Louis XV of France holds out a scroll lettered "Pragmatic Sanction" eager for war; 4. the Queen of Spain encourages him, resolved to gain Italian lands, beside her stand her sons, one of whom, Don Carlos, is saying "Corsica" while "Abdicated Theodore" lies on the ground, a beggar holdingout his hat for alms, and the King of Spain, in 17th-century dress stands behind; 5. Cardinal Fleury stands in a walking frame labelled "Doteingness" counsels peace; 6. a portly Walpole stands with one foot over a grave in which lies a coffin labelled "Memento Mori" and a skull and bones; he holds a paper lettered, "Nem. Con." and a string by which he restrains to ships labelled, "Bob'd". 7. a City of London alderman, labelled "Sturdy Beggar" in reference to Walpole's insult in response to the City's opposition to his Excise Bill (1733), seeks "in Petto" (privately) "a Bill in the Parliament for Putting down of fat Men"; 8. a Dutchman stands aside determined only to take a defensive role; the Grand Duke of Tuscany addresses Frederick the Great, while Maria Theresa, already Queen of Bohemia, stands behind lamenting; further to the left, stand Anna Leopoldovna the Regent of Russia with her young son, Czar Ivan VI ("little John"); Sweden and Austria stand behind. Enclosed in a delicate rococo frame with a ribbon at the top adveritising "A brave gallante show", title in a cartouche below and sixteen lines of verse beneath. March 1741
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Depicted people Representation of: Frederick II, King of Prussia
Date 1741
date QS:P571,+1741-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres
Width: 322 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3657
Notes

Advertised at 6d in the Daily Post, 20 March 1741, as due for publication the following day at one o'clock, making clear that the "Fat Man" represents Walpole and noting that "several of the Figures never open their Lips upon the Occasion it argues they are introduced only by way of Decoration."

The plate was altered and re-issued as "The Queen of Hungary Stript", BM satires 2512.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3657
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