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The magnanimous-minister, chastising Prussian-perfidy : / Js. Gillray fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The magnanimous-minister, chastising Prussian-perfidy : / Js. Gillray fect.

[London] : Pubd May 2d 1806 by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1806]
etching, hand colored
image: 226 x 347 mm; plate mark: 245 x 347 mm; sheet: 285 x 429 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.446
Notes
A satire on Fox's speech of 23 April 1806 on the King's message (21 April) relating to Prussia.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Fox, wearing a military cocked hat, with civilian dress, threatening Prussia with his sabre. The latter, a grotesque figure with a long pigtail and moustaches, kneels terrified at his feet, clasping his hands in supplication. Fox says, " - O you Prussian Marauder, you! - what I've caught you at last? - what, You took me for a double-faced-Talleyrand! did you? - did you think I was like yourself, to Look One way & Row another? - what you thought because I make Loyal Speeches now, that I must be a Turncoat? - O you Frenchified Villain! - I'll teach you to humbug & insult my poor, dear, dear Master? - & to join with such Rascals as Boney, & O'Conner!" Prussia exclaims, terrified, "indeed! indeed! indeed! I could not help it. - " Meanwhile, Napoleon, holding his sabre, and wearing feathered bicorne, furtively hastens up to Fox from behind, to read the open book which the latter displays to him behind his back: 'State of the Nation'.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department