Commemorative Print of the Treaty of Utrecht, 1713

This 18th-century Dutch print commemorates the Treaty of Utrecht, signed on 11 April 1713 between France and England, the United Provinces, Savoy, Portugal, and Prussia. This treaty, the first major diplomatic agreement drafted in French since Henri II, recognised Philip V as King of Spain on condition that he permanently renounce the French crown, while ceding to England several colonial possessions including Acadia and Newfoundland. It closed thirteen years of continuous war and inaugurated the diplomatic primacy of the French language, which was to last until the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.