The French King's scheme for an invasion
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Print shows a caricature of King Louis XV, with his profile distorted to emulate the contours of the French coastline along the Channel, with Dunkirk and Boulogne marked and the abbreviation "Lud-Mag" (i.e. Ludi Magister?) printed above in large letters. From the top of the King's head, a line of ships and flat bottomed boats carrying troops and munitions stretches to the horizon line, labelled with the words "Wither wilt thou". Two British ships labelled Anson and Hawk flank the French coast, while a third, underwritten with the words "Pull by the nose" fires on the King's nose at far left. The King says: O! O! O! me d'Pompedour.