Ohhhh, Émilie, please. I want to know the rest of the letter that cool quote is from.
Otherwise: Amalie and Ulrike.
Oh, and I'm Browsing through the disertation about Algarotti's networking, when a tiny aside cracks me up, to wit, that Algarotti while in Dresden designed a couple of porcellain figurines for "the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia" in 1742, and after successfully completing this commission expressed the hope the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia would commission him to procure statues for her as well. Considering the author some pages earlier when explaining the first Silesian war spoke of "Maria Theresia, the new Empress" (technically not correct, of course), I do wonder wether she realises who the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia in 1742 was. And also why it amuses me mightily that Algarotti, freshly departed from Fritz' court, designs table porcellain for her and wants to do more. Evidently that didn't work out, but now I want the AU where MT steals one Fritz boyfriend after another for her court, starting with Algarotti.
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Re: The Fritzian Library
Date: 2020-01-12 03:34 pm (UTC)Otherwise: Amalie and Ulrike.
Oh, and I'm Browsing through the disertation about Algarotti's networking, when a tiny aside cracks me up, to wit, that Algarotti while in Dresden designed a couple of porcellain figurines for "the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia" in 1742, and after successfully completing this commission expressed the hope the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia would commission him to procure statues for her as well. Considering the author some pages earlier when explaining the first Silesian war spoke of "Maria Theresia, the new Empress" (technically not correct, of course), I do wonder wether she realises who the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia in 1742 was. And also why it amuses me mightily that Algarotti, freshly departed from Fritz' court, designs table porcellain for her and wants to do more. Evidently that didn't work out, but now I want the AU where MT steals one Fritz boyfriend after another for her court, starting with Algarotti.