Amsterdam in a dam’d predicament, – or – The Last Scene of the Republican Pantomime, James Gillray, 1787
In this scene by the famous English caricaturist James Gillray, William V’s restoration as stadtholder after the Prussian invasion has become a bloody stage play. The British watch these foolish Continental antics with their usual amused aloofness. The stadtholder unleashes a bloodbath among the Patriots – once more portrayed as frogs – whilst in the background Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia allows them to kiss her bottom.