Item Summary

A satire on the relationship between nations engaged in the War of the Austrian Succession suggesting that The Netherlands, by remaining neutral, benefited the most. In a rural setting beside a river, it shows two men, representing France and Spain confronting each other, each holding the horn of a cow and trying to lead it in one direction while Britain pulls it the other way by the tail. Crouching beneath the cow, his finger to his nose to signify secrecy, a Dutchman milks the cow. In the background a French greyhound and a British bulldog snarl at each other while a Dutch pug runs off with a bone.

Descriptive Information

Title
The Benefit of Neutrality
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/18th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/18th c./Caricatures GA 2024.02997
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5m60r510d
Publisher
[England] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by C Goodwin, 1745
Language
English
Date Created
1745
Extent
1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate: 22.2 x 29.4 cm ; sheet: 28 x 33.5 cm
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires no. 2665
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Title from item.
Lettered with the title below the image, eight lines of verse in two columns 'Ambitious France and haughty Spain ... Steals in and bears the Bone away.'
Princeton copy 1 Inscribed in ink, top center: "No XVIII"

Discovery Information

Subject
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0e9a7764-cc9e-4d48-8843-560387986513/manifest