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A Sun setting in a Fog: with the Old Hanover Hack descending, 1783 (coloured engraving)

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A Sun setting in a Fog: with the Old Hanover Hack descending, 1783 (coloured engraving)
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Gillray, James (1757-1815) / English
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coloured engraving
Date
1783 AD (C18th AD)
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Charles James Fox, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, flogs the exhausted horse of Hanover towards the Valley of Annihilation. Gillray references Lord Shelburne, who said: 'The sun of Great Britain will set whenever she acknowledges the independence of America'. Fox is depicted wearing Spanish leather boots and carrying a French cock, accusing him of traitorous foreign allegiances. He has cast aside the crown and the Magna Carta in his pursuit of ambition.

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horse / animal / satirical drawing / United Kingdom / Europe / Gillray James (1757-1815) / England / artist / art / whipping / secretary of state for foreign affairs / man / statesman / men / sunset / statesmen / old / georgian / cartoons / lord shelbourne / setting / british / whips / political / horses / hanover / politician / whip / male / politics / satirical / charles james fox / politicians / sun / fog / horse / satire / hack / Engraving / Mzengraving
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