The Polish plumb-cake
The Polish plumb-cake. 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. Date 1774 Sept. 1
Picture No
10609385
Media ID
47471930
Size
2373px x 3624px
(3.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Library of Congress
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Cleaver Equal Partitioned Plumb Representing Rests Separate Share Weeping
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