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James Gillray
1756-1815
Gloria Mundi, or The Devil addressing the sun - Pare. Lost, Book IV.
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image: 314 x 224 mm; plate mark: 350 x 249 mm; sheet:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2388
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[London] : Pubd July 22d by W. Humphrey, [1782?]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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By James Gillray.
Summary:
Cartoon showing Charles James Fox standing on a roulette wheel perched atop a globe showing England and continental Europe, the implication is that his penniless state, indicated by turned-out pockets, is due to gambling; he looks over his left shoulder up at a bust of Shelburne who, like the sun, is beaming radiantly. Like Edmund Burke, Fox resigned his position as foreign secretary in protest at the appointment of Shelburne following Rockingham's death.
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