Gloria mundi, or, The Devil addressing the sun [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50033402
- Edition:
- [State with plate no.].
- Copyright Date:
- [1849?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.2 x 26 cm, on sheet 39.6 x 29 cm
- Notes:
- For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 6012 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Plate from: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn by C. Whiting, [1849?].
Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner.
Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued.
Title etched below image. - Abstract:
- Charles James Fox, with the feet and tail of a fox, his empty pockets turned out, and with cow horns protruding through his hat, stands on an E.O. (gaming) table placed on the North Pole. Quoting Satan's speech from Paradise Lost, he looks to the upper right where the sun is depicted as Lord Shelburne. Refers to Fox's gambling habit and his July 1782 resignation after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury.
- Variant Titles:
- Devil addressing the sun
The V- Committee framing a report. CtY-LW
The Victualling Committee framing a report. CtY-LW - Topics:
- Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Foxes.
Gambling. - Topics:
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056907
- Topics:
- Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50045707
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Lansdowne, William Petty,--Marquis of,--1737-1805--Caricatures and cartoons. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1849.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 782.07.22.01.3+
- Orbis Record:
- 13058255
- Yale Collection:
- id=199635}
Lewis Walpole Library - Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr28299
- Citation:
- Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 40
- OID:
- 16228928
- PID:
- digcoll:4083336
