Cardinal Portocarrero and the Battle of Malplaquet, 1709. A depiction of the battle between the Allies and the French on September 11, 1709 set in an architectural frame with several allegorical figures. In the center, the reclining Cardinal Portocarrero (seen as the instigator of the war) looks on, in the front right Death paints a portrait of the Cardinal who dies 3 days after the battle on September 14, 1709, Cardinal Portocarrero and the Battle of Malplaquet, 1709 Don Louis Emanuel von Portocarero (...) , print maker: Johann Jakob Kleinschmidt, (mentioned on object), Paul Decker (I), (

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