Frederick the Great Hercule Showing figures making repairs to

Showing figures making repairs to ships and boats or handling cargo

107 (1817)

vignettes and coats of arms

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wearing a wig and shown half-face to the right as viewed

Frederick the Great Hercule Showing figures making repairs toFrederick the Great, King of Prussia, 18th century (1913). Frederick II (1712 1786) ruled Prussia from 1740. He enlarged Prussian territory by acquiring Silesia from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession and from the partiton of Poland. He was regarded as an enlightened monarch, promoting religious tolerance, modernising the bureaucracy and civil service and patronising the work of writers and philosophers such as Voltaire and Kant. From A