Print shows the King and Queen, seated on the throne, receiving a deputation from Turkey. A Turk stands suggestively proffering a large rolled document with pendent seals on which are crescents: 'Powers for a new Connexion between the Port, England & France'. Scroll and pendants are positioned and configured in such a way as to give the roll a blatently phallic appearance. Beside him (left) another Turk grovels on the ground. Fox and Sheridan, kneeling with crouching humility, hold up the long cloak of the Turkish emissary; their bonnets-rouges are decorated with crescents. Behind them Priestley bows low (right). Turks with spears and banners stand behind him. To a spear topped with a crescent is attached a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive la Republique'. Pitt, a naked mannikin, one foot on the royal dais, clutches the King's knee in terror: a chain from his wrist is attached to a royal crown lying on the ground. Behind him, and beside the throne, stands Dundas in Highland dress, holding a pike. The King stares, biting his fingers and clutching the Queen, who puts her fan before her face but peeks through it at the Turks. The three elder princesses peep from behind the throne on the extreme left.
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Presentation of the Mahometan credentials, or, The final resource of French atheists : / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
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James Gillray
1756-1815
Presentation of the Mahometan credentials, or, The final resource of French atheists : / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
[London] : Pubd Decr 26th 1793 by H Humphrey, N 18 Old Bond Street, [1793]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.524
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[London] : Pubd. Decr. 26th 1793 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street, [1793]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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