Timeline for Who are these people in this satirical cartoon of the Congress of Verona?
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 6:51 | comment | added | sgf | Why is Bohemia lying under Russia rather than Austria? Panslavism? | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 2:00 | vote | accept | CJ Dennis | ||
| Sep 4, 2019 at 10:24 | history | edited | Semaphore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 10:03 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | These optics now are convincing ;) Add some more background to the historical dynamics portrayed and it's perfect. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 9:59 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | Prussia seen as an upstart, childish; then at times passive during the event (not enitrely to all aspects or the whole time). Further minutiae: "(5) Article IV stipulated that the "two emperors" would give France an annual subsidy of 20,000,000 francs ($ 4,000,000) each to help her crush the Spanish and Portuguese revolutions, […] And why was Prussia exempted from contributing anything? When war came, France had to finance it herself. Finally, the reference to the "two emperors" is colloquial." | |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 9:51 | comment | added | Semaphore | @LangLangC Those two are Naples and Sardinia. Prussia/Frederick William III is clearly being depicted as a baby in a cot, but I'm not quite sure why. | |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 9:22 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | It's anyway quite a feat of combining & condensing all the issues at Verona as little men when the real talk depicted is supposedly just the big one: Spanish question… Any thoughts on the cot (Prussia anaesthetised?) and the two guys on Austrias behind (no idea)? | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 9:19 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | Cannot argue against these optics, but doubts remain, it's too small and lossy. Content wise however: It seems to me that succession to Sardinian throne played a bigger role than 2-Sicilies at Verona: "In the face of the concerted opposition of France, Russia, Britain, the Papacy, and Tuscany, Metternich in November yielded with as much grace as possible. It was simply another case of the cake not being worth the candle. Concluding that Austrian interests would be ill-served by further interference with the Sardinian succession, he discreetly suggested to…" (Irby Nichols) | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 8:38 | comment | added | Semaphore |
@LangLangC The first letter is definitely ſ, so s, and you can see a i in the middle, with a a stroke under the last letter that I assume to be a y rendered faint by jpeg compression. I filled in the blanks and assumed it's Sicily, which Austrian troops had invaded just recently. If Sardinia was intended, I find it unlikely that they would render it as Sarda.
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 8:28 | history | edited | Semaphore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 7:47 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | Could you explain why these figures are what you name them? (reason for size, trampling etc) The baby? The 2 little guys behind the white man? What hat is Metternich wearing? And what kind of most holy alliance forming does this picture represent? (And seriously: good eyesight, from just using this pic, I do not see any clear labels but just me scratching my head: figure under right foot "Varda?" Perhaps Sarda, then Sardinia, not "Sicily"?) | |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 4:38 | history | edited | Denis de Bernardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 4:19 | history | answered | Semaphore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |