James Gillray
Political Dreaming! - Visions of Peace! - Perspective Horrors (1801)
The war minister William Windham (1750-1810) is shown in bed, sleepless, and surrounded by the terrible parade of monstrosity and perversion which he feared would accompany the proposed peace with France. To the left, a skeleton on stilts straddles a pile of discarded British trophies, wearing the revolutionary bonnet rouge. In the background, we can see St Paul’s Cathedral in flames and Britannia in chains.