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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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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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