DescriptionTaming-of-the-Shrew-Gillray.jpeg	English: Taming of the shrew: —Katharine & Petruchio; —The modern Quixotte, —or, what you will— SUMMARY: Cartoon shows Catherine II, faint and shying away from William Pitt, who appears as Petruchio, and Don Quixote on horseback (a lean and scarred George III whose authority has been usurped by Pitt), seated behind Pitt are the King of Prussia and a figure representing Holland as Sancho Panza, Selim III kneels to kiss the horse's tail; a gaunt figure representing the old order in France and Leopold II render assistence to Catherine by preventing her from falling to the ground. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 1791 April 20th. According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 33, "On the attempted intermediation of Great Britain, backed by Prussia and Holland, between Russia and Turkey, in the spring of 1791. Austria and France are giving encouragement to the Empress Catharine. Turkey, which was suffering severely, takes shelter behind Pitt and his supporters, who have ridden rather roughly the Hanoverian horse."
Date	20 April 1791
Source	Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-6756 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (51 MB), level color (pick white point), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author	James Gillray (1756–1815)       Alternative names James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray Description British caricaturist and engraver Date of birth/death 13 August 1756  1 June 1815  Location of birth/death London London  Work location London  Authority file : Q520806 VIAF: 66735065 ISNI: 0000000083903643 ULAN: 500017355 LCCN: n50033402 NLA: 35125322 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q520806
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Original text: Blood of Dunder, I would give her one good Prussian stroking

Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; Off with that bauble, 'tis my royal will

I'm in a good humour to give her a dram of right Holland's

Amman! Amman! Anglois, Alla, Alla

Das is de devil, to give up all again

O, by Gar! if Miraberu was but live! Sacre Dieu

I see my Lances are but straws; My strength is weak, my weakness past compare; And am asham'd, that Women are so simple To offer War when they should kneel for Peace.

Heigho! to have myself thus rid to death, by a Boy & his playmates, merely to frighten an Old Woman -- I wish I was back in Hanover, to get myself a belly full

Pub'd April 20th, 1791, by S.W. Fores Piccadilly

TAMING of the SHREW: Katharine & Petruchio; The Modern Quiscotte, or, what you will.

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