The Corsican Shuttlecock
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title:
The Corsican Shuttlecock
text:
The Corsican Shuttlecock or a Pretty Plaything for the Allies is an 1814 satirical cartoon by the British illustrator George Cruikshank. The print is Cruickshank's take on the recent Battle of Paris and the fall of the French capital. The print shows a game of badminton being played by the commanders of allied forces the Prussian Marshal Blucher and the Austrian Karl von Schwarzenberg. Napoleon, the Emperor of France who had dominated Continental Europe for more than a decade, is portrayed as a
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description:
1814 editorial cartoon
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corsican_Shuttlecock
date created:
2024-08-13T10:01:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T16:10:20Z
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