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James Gillray
1756-1815
Gloria mundi, or, The Devil addressing the sun
[London] : Pubd. July 22d. 1782 E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, [1782]
etching, hand colored
image: 314 x 224 mm; plate mark: 350 x 249 mm; sheet: 427 x 276 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.235
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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By James Gillray.
Satire inspired by Fox's gambling habit and his July 1782 resignation after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury.
A variant, and probably later, impression of this print bears the imprint of W. Humphrey, with no year given.
Summary:
Print shows Charles Fox, with horns and the legs and brush of a fox, standing on an E. O. table, which is placed on the summit of the globe (over the North Pole). In the upper right corner of the design is a bust portrait of Shelburne, within a circle which represents the sun and is sending out rays. Fox is saying, "To thee I call, But with no friendly voice, & add thy name, Sh ne! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell: &c. &c. &c...."
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