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The Queen of Hungary's Whetstone   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Queen of Hungary's Whetstone
Description
English: Satire on the progress of the War of Austrian Succession at a point when Maria Theresa and her allies had regained Bohemia from Prussia and France. The queen squats on a wall urinating on a grindstone turned by George II with the sum of £500,000 lettered on the handle while a Dutchman sharpens his sword. A label beside her reads, "Down on her Foes the Floud in vengeance flies,/But all her Friends, Confederates & Allies,/Bless the kind Shower which maks their Courage rise.".The swords of the queen's allies, already sharpened, lie on the ground with labels identifying them as Cologne, Trier, Poland, Mainz, Bohemia and Sardinia. To the right, two French soldiers call for recruits, each has a wooden leg and holds a blank sheet of paper ("carte blanche"): the drummer wearing a tall cap with a fleur-de-lis and a French cock says "Our Army's ruin'd & Silessia lost" while the skin of his drum is lettered, "Deserters come, Or I'm undone"; the trumpeter wearing a cloak decorated with fleur-de-lis says "Yon rapid stream has All our Projects cross'd". A dog barks beside the two men and beyond a battle rages across a river.
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Depicted people Representation of: Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
Date circa 1744
date QS:P571,+1744-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 176 millimetres (image)
Height: 196 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 305 millimetres (image)
Width: 312 millimetres (trimmed?)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3769
Notes The queen's pose recalls that of Madame de Maintenon in BM Satires 1340. The right-hand part of the scene with the trumpeter, drummer and dog and harbour beyond is adapted from another print related to the War of Spanish Succession, BM Satire 1451.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3769
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