Numbered "2" in ink at bottom left.
Title from item.
"One of four satires on the invasion of the United Provinces by Prussia and the collapse of the Patriots who had relied on French assistance."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
One of a set of four, and a companion print to British Museum satire no. 7177. A party of unsoldierly Dutch ragamuffins practises firing at the figure of a Prussian soldier (right) chalked on a high stone wall. They stand on the brink of a ditch close to the wall and are commanded by a man in civilian dress holding a pike, evidently a member of a Free Corps, who is directing the military training of the others. One man stands up to his knees in water; frogs are climbing up him. Other frogs stand on the bank holding weapons. A crowd of ruffians (left) watch the firing, some have muskets, one a blunderbuss, one blows a trumpet, another waves his hat; all exult at the success of their arms against the symbol of the Prussian army, at which a dog barks and ducks quack. The high stone wall has a ruinous gap which is filled with a windmill. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.