The Dying French Monarchy (plate b), 1711

The Dying Anjou Monarchy (plate b), 1711. Second plate in a group of 4 allegories on the failure of the Duke of Anjou as King Philip V of Spain. The donkey (Spain) is being fattened at a table. With inscriptions and verses in Dutch and French. Part of the Prints of 1711, a group of 5 unnumbered satirical prints on the French in the year 1711 of the War of the Spanish Succession. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of satirical prints during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.