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Image Title: Gloria Mundi, Or The Devil Addressing The Sun - Pare. Lost, Book IV, 1782

Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist

Date: 1782 July 22d.

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.

Subjects: Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Resignation from office
Lansdowne, William Petty,--Marquis of,--1737-1805
Resignations--1780-1790

Original Media: Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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