Dumourier dining in state at St. James's, on the 15th of May, 1793 / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Dumourier dining in state at St. James's, on the 15th of May, 1793 / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono publico.
hand colored engraving
image: 30.7 x 36.3 cm; plate: 30.7 x 36.7 cm; sheet: 31.7 x 37.2 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2823
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[London] : H. Humphrey ; 1793.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation 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.

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