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Bobadil Disgraced or Kate in a rage- For Brunswicks Duke with Ninety Thousand men March'd into France and then!! & then March'd out again, 10 October 1792

 Item — Box: LF104/2 Box 1
Reference code: LF104/2/34

Scope and Contents

Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Catherine II stands between the King of Poland (left), whom she seizes by his pigtail queue and the Duke of Brunswick, whose back she kicks. She stands in profile to the right, turning her back on Stanislaus, and threatening Brunswick with outstretched sceptre. She says "B---t your Cowardly Spirit I'll Kick you to Hell, what I suppose you was frightened at their Naked A---sses. Get out of my sight, or I'll send you and your Army---after my Husband". Brunswick (right), who wears military uniform, flees from her terror-stricken, dropping his hat. He says: "And here my rendezvous is quite cut off. Honour is cudgell'd, well, Bawd will I turn To Brunswich will I steal, & there I'll steal: And Patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars, And swear I got them in the Gallic Wars". Stanislaus, who is in back view, is being dragged from left to right. He says "Let my Pole go oh! Stanislaus what Disgrace". On a table beside him are a crown labelled 'to the King of Poland' and a paper: 'rules & orders to be Implicitly obeyed Cat Catherine'. On the wall behind him is a map of France showing the south of England and the english channel; 'France' the word in reversed letters is bisected by a line, the northern portion inscribed 'my share'. After the title is etched: 'For Brunswicks Duke with Ninety Thousand men March'd into France and then!!-- & then Marched out again'. Catherine urged Prussia and Austria to intervene in france in order to absorb Poland unmolested. Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', pp. 9, 46, 51 ff. The Second Partition Treaty was signed 23 Jan. 1793. See 'Camb. Mod. Hist.' viii. 531 ff. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8124.

Dates

  • Creation: 10 October 1792

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1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

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