In V&A Museum I saw a group of snuffbox associated with Frederick II and these boxes impress me deeply especially this one.
This English box proves the international fame of Frederick II after Seven Years War .The idealized portrait on this box shows him in his twenties, when he was a crown prince of Prussia. In fact Frederick The Great was in his fifties when the box was made, that inspired my idea because I thought he became a totally different person when he got older
Because Trudi told me to use the illustration to tell story. I decided to make this magazine without words and shows the life of Frederick the great and the difference between the world he was dream of and the real world.
the cover shows the old king and his shattered dream when he was young, and the snuffbox I saw in V&A museum.And in the first picture, the left side shows that when he was eighteen years old he and his friend’s plan Of running away to England because he didn’t want to be a king . And it caused his closest friend’s death in the right side.
The second picture illustrated when he became a king, he was waging war and turn Prussia in to a highly militarized state, but he also built Sans Souci Palace and continued playing music in there.
The last picture is about his death and his achievement of win the land of Silesian.