The landscape was dotted with papier-mache roses and lilies and peopled by curly-horned horses, characters in tasseled, clownlike costumes, and a peruked barrister in trailing robes.
Originally "The Whip" was a cravache used by peruked Charles II, but the original whip was lost, has been a will o' the wisp for antiquaries these many years.
Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rdiger von Starhemberg, who had under him a man destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene .