Engraving with etching of Frederick II (the Great) King of Prussia and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Portrait of Fredrick the Great with his elder sister Wilhelmine of Prussia, as children. The future King is pictured as an infant, with plumed cap, gown, and sash, holding a toy drum, standing beside the figure of his sister. The children are attended by a Black page to the right. With a small dog playing at the children's feet and with a view of a gate in the background. Proof before lettering, for a later state with inscriptions and printed in brown see RCIN 607609.

The Black servant is unlikely to represent an identifiable individual. Instead, the inclusion of Black figures as servants, attendants, or enslaved people in portraits of European sitters was a common visual trope. The submissive presence of such figures (often shown in acts of service such as holding clothes, umbrellas or trays) was deployed as a visual status symbol. The Black figures often emphasise the status of the main sitter by being positioned behind or looking up to them, establishing a physical as well as a racial hierarchy. These figures are often dressed in clothing considered ‘exotic’ by contemporary Europeans such as turbans, silks, and caftans, further representing the luxurious fantasy and wealth that was felt to be embodied by the Black presence.Their presence also asserts the global power of the sitter through reference to the transatlantic slave trade: in this print the boy may be wearing a slave collar.