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• Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
  
• Title:The magnanimous minister chastiseing [sic] Prussian perfidy [graphic] / Jas. Gillray delt.
  
• Publication:[London] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 2 May 1806?]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 22 x 30 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 806.05.02.01
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Joel Bergquist; November 2013.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title from caption below image.
  Text following title: "Vide Morning Chronicle."
  Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10560
  
• Summary:"Fox, wearing a military cocked hat, with civilian dress, threatens Prussia (or Frederick William III) with his sabre, while he puts a foot on the sword that Prussia has dropped. The latter, a grotesque figure with a long pigtail and moustaches, kneels terrified at his feet, clasping his hands in supplication. His Death's Head Hussar cap falls from his thrown-back head; he wears a fur-trimmed cloak and tunic, with a badge of the Prussian Eagle on his sleeve, with half-boots and extravagant spurs. Fox says, with an expression of sour and calculating contempt, " - 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, with spurred jack-boots, 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'.
  
• Variant and related titles:Magnanimous minister chastising Prussian perfidy
  Magnanimous minister chastiseing Prussian perfidy
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
  Admirals--British.
  Military uniforms--British.
  Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.
  Etchings--England--London--1806.