Polish Plumb Cake,Leopold II,Holy Roman Emperor,Catherine II,Empress of Russia
Title: The Polish plumb-cake / J. Lodge sculp.
Creator(s): Lodge, John, d. 1796, artist
Date Created/Published: [London : 1774 Sept. 1]
Summary: Cartoon shows Leopold II and Frederick William II with swords drawn, Catherine II holding a cleaver, and Louis XV with a knife seated around a table on which rests a partitioned cake, representing Poland, each monarch getting a separate, but not equal share; in the background on the left stands a weeping king of Poland, on the right, with sword raised is the Sultan.
Notes:
Illus. from: The Westminster magazine, vol. II, p. 416.
Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5229
Exhibit loan 4161-L.
Subjects:
Leopold--II,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1747-1792.
Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796.
Frederick William--II,--King of Prussia,--1744-1797.
Louis--XV,--King of France,--1710-1774.
Stanislaw--II August,--King of Poland,--1732-1798.
Poland--History--First partition, 1772.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1770-1780.
Engravings--1770-1780.
Bookmark /99404810/
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