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Gloria Mundi, or The Devil addressing the sun - Pare. Lost, Book IV.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Gloria Mundi, or The Devil addressing the sun - Pare. Lost, Book IV.

Published

[London] : Pubd July 22d by W. Humphrey, [1782?]

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image: 314 x 224 mm; plate mark: 350 x 249 mm; sheet:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2388
Notes
By James Gillray.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

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.

Associated names
Humphrey, William, ca. 1740-ca. 1810, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department