BM8318-dumourier-dining-in-state-1793-0512
identifier:
BM8318-dumourier-dining-in-state-1793-0512
title:
Dumourier dining in state at St James's on the 15h of May 1793
date:
1793
description:
Dumouriez sits in a gothic chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleeves. They are Fox, the foremost, proffering the steaming head of Pitt; at his belt, in place of a cook's knife, hangs a dagger. Sheridan, on Fox's left, proffers a dish on which steams a broken royal crown. On the extreme left Priestley enters in profile to the right, holding up a dish containing a mitre. The dishes have a garnish of frogs. All look with eager courtesy towards Dumouriez, who sits with famished expectancy, a dagger in one hand, a fork in the other. He is thin and unshaven with straggling hair and long pigtail. He wears a large feather-trimmed cocked hat, lace ruffles, a gold-laced and ragged military tunic, a tattered shirt over bare legs. His plate bears the royal arms; other gold plate is in the form of inverted coronets and of a Communion cup with the letters 'SIH'. Two spoons are decorated with the red hand of a baronet. These objects indicate that Dumouriez has come to overthrow the monarchy, the Church and hereditary rank. On the back of his gothic chair is a red cap of 'Libertas'. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #8318
format:
31 cm x 37 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2016.01 1793
subject:
Charles Francois Dumouriez
subject:
Charles James Fox
subject:
William Pitt the Younger
subject:
Dr. Joseph Priestley
subject:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
subject:
Politics
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Gillray, James
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
