Catherine ii stands between the king of poland (left), whom she seizes by his pigtail queue, and the duke of brunswick, whose back she kicks. She stands in profile to the right, turning her back on stanislaus, and threatening brunswick with outstretched sceptre. She says "b------t your cowardly spirit i'll kick you to hell, what i suppose you was frightened at their naked a------sses. Get out of my sight, or i'll send you and your army------after my husband" [cf. Bmsat 8073]. Brunswick (right), who wears military uniform, flees from her terror-stricken, dropping his hat. He says:
"and here my rendezvous is quite cut off. Honor is cudgell'd, well, bawd will i turn
to brunswick will i steal, & there i'll steal:
and patches will i get unto these cudgell'd scars,
and swear i got them in the gallic wars. "
stanislaus, who is in back view, is being dragged from left to right. He says "let my pole go oh! stanislaus what disgrace". On a table beside him are a crown labelled 'to the king of poland' and a paper: 'rules & orders to be implicitly obeyed cat catherine. ' on the wall behind him is a 'map of france' showing the south of 'england' and the 'english channel'; france, the word in reversed letters, is bisected by a line, the northern portion inscribed 'my share'. After the title is etched (as in bmsat 8125):
'for brunswicks duke with ninety thousand men
march'd into france and then!! - & then marched out again' 1 october 1792. Hand-coloured etching. Date: 1792. Dimensions: Height: 252 mm; Width: 355 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Collection: British Museum. Bobadil disgraced or Kate in a rage- (BM 1868,0808.6231 1)
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