The work is an imaginative reconstruction of the Vorticist artists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, 1 Percy Street, London. It features, from left to right, seated: Cuthbert Hamilton, Ezra Pound, William Roberts, Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells and Edward Wadsworth. Standing in the doorway are Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders. Joe, the waiter, and Rudolph Stulik, the proprietor of the restaurant from 1908-1937, are on the right. Etchells is holding volume I of the Vorticist publication 'Blast'. In the late 1950s, Roberts commented on the evenings at the restaurant in 'The Listener' (21 March 1957): 'In my memory la cuisine française [French cooking] and Vorticism are indissolubly linked.'

William Roberts has the distinction of being the longest living original Vorticist, and all through his life since 1914 Manifesto, considered himself a Vorticist. He was born 5 June 1895 in London, and studied commercial art. Due to his talent for draughtsmanship, he was given a scholarship to the Slade School, where he attended from 1910 to 1913. He joined the Omega Workshops, though was not involved in the Round Robin Letter. He was a signatory of the Vorticist Manifesto in Blast. However, he fell out with Lewis when the latter pronounced that: “Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did and said at a certain period”