3-056-616 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

'Dumourier dining in state at St James's on the 15 May, 1793'. 'Vide His own declaration as printed by the Anti-levelling Societies. To the worthy Members of the Society at the Crown & Anchor, this Print illustrative of Treasons in Embryo (by them hunted out & exposed) is submitted by an admirer of their principles & truly clasic publications. Jas. Gillray delt.' Three cooks advance, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleeves. Charles James Fox proffes the steaming head of Pitt; Sheridan, right, holds a dish containing a broken royal crown; Priestley enters with a dish containing a mitre. Dumouriez (anglicised to Dumourier) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table, with a dagger in one hand, a fork in the other. He is much caricatured, thin, and unshaven, and 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. A communion cup has the letters 'SIH' (reversed). These objects indicate that Dumouriez has come to overthrow the British monarchy, the Church and hereditary rank. On the back of his gothic chair is a red cap of 'Libertas'. From "The Caricatures of Gillray".