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. He is much caricatured, 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' (reversed). 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'. Below the design: '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 loyal principles & truly classic publications. ' 30 march 1793
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1793. Dimensions: Height: 300 mm; Width: 360 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Charles François Dumouriez. Collection: British Museum. Dumourier dining in state at St James's, on the 15th of May, 1793. (BM J,3.32)
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