David. J., 1794. Hand-colored etching. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. (Source: Shikes, R. E., 1969, The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso, Beacon Press, Boston).

Pitt's Plot

According to Shikes (p 138) the irony of this cartoon by Jacques-Louis David, one of the foremost painters of revolutionary France, is directed against English critics of the French revolution.