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General Pompadour or the Minden hero, 1759.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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General Pompadour or the Minden hero, 1759.
Description
English: Satire on the controversy over Lord George Sackville's command of the cavalry at the battle of Minden, showing him on horseback saying, "Oh the naughty Guns how they make my Head Ach"; behind him is a box of "Eau de Luce" and a letter from Louis XV, "My Dear I dont fight Ys. L"; his horse complains that he would rather be a dray than carry "such a Coward". A soldier addresses Sackville, "I Wear a Feather of Honour yours is a Badge of Disgrace". "Pl. 96 to 'A political and satyrical history of the years 1758 and 1759'. 1759
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Depicted people Representation of: George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
Date 1759
date QS:P571,+1759-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 89 millimetres
Width: 119 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1847,1009.18.20.+
Notes

Sackville's alleged cowardice is associated with homosexuality as in BM Satires 3680.

Eau de luce was a type of smelling salts.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1847-1009-18-20-
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