Charles James Fox as Christian in 'The pilgrim's progress', sinking into the slough of despond and unable to reach the Celestial City, which is shown as a Jacobin citadel in the right background. Etching by J. Gillray.
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
- Date:
- [1830]
- Reference:
- 585520i
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Description
Refers to the isolation of Fox (due to opposition to war with the French) by the decision of the majority of Whigs at a meeting at Burlington House on 11 December 1792 to support the Government. One of many prints of Fox as a Jacobin sympathizer
Publication/Creation
[London] : [Thomas McLean], [1830]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image 14.8 x 21.2 cm
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Lettering
The slough of despond: - vide-the patriots progress- 'This miry slough is such a place ... he sinks into despondency under the burden of his own wickedness'
Fox says: "Help! help! - will no kind power lend a hand to deliver me? - Oh! what will become of me? - All my former friends have forsaken me! - If I try to go on, I sink deeper in the filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the mire, that I can not get back, 'tho I try; - Ah me! - this burden upon my back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! - I shall rise no more! - I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!"
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. vii., London 1942, no. 8286
Reference
Wellcome Collection 585520i
Reproduction note
Previously published 2 June 1793 by H. Humphrey, N. 18, Old Bond Street
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