God save the King, - in a bumper, or, An evening scene, three times a week at Wimbleton / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
God save the King, - in a bumper, or, An evening scene, three times a week at Wimbleton / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 24.6 x 33.7 cm; sheet: 26 x 35.5 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2866
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to within plate mark.

Summary: 

Pitt and Dundas are tipsily carousing at a rectangular table from which the cloth has been removed. Pitt, wearing spurred top-boots, sits on the corner of the table in profile to the left, his chair behind him at the head of the table. Dundas (left), wearing a plaid across his shoulders, sits full-face, turning his head in profile to the right, and waving a tobacco-pipe towards Pitt. They touch glasses, each holding his glass in the left hand; Pitt tries to fill them, but with the bottle reversed, spilling its contents. On the table is a decanter of 'Brandy', a bottle on its side, a clutter of empty bottles, glasses, Pitt's broken pipe, and a plate of food. In the foreground are bottles in a wine-cooler, and under the table is a chamber-pot on which is a figure of Britannia.

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