The conservative dinner

Wellington, in uniform, his back to the viewer, sits in a chair at a low table; the back of his chair is centred by a skull. Facing him as "Vice" is a repulsive bishop (Phillpotts). From under the cloth peeps out a demon-dog gnawing a bone inscribed "Bribe". Lyndhurst (?) sits on the Duke's right, carving a joint inscribed "Division of Countie's". Next to him is Wetherell eating "Bristol Fire". On Wellington's left is a bishop (Van Mildert, founder of Durham University in 1832), eating a tithe-pig and stirring a pot of "Durham Mustard". Next to him is Newcastle, holding up a glass inscribed "My Own". Next to him is Peel (?), intent on food. Cumberland's features emerge from smoke, as does the head of a trumpeter blowing the trumpet of the Tory Press, the "Morning Post" and the "Standard".