Identity area
Reference code
JG/2/17
Title
The New Dynasty; - or - the little Corsican Gardiner planting a Royal Pippin Tree
Date(s)
- 1851 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper.
Context area
Name of creator
(1756-1815)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Print by James Gillray, printed for publisher Henry G. Bohn and subsequently hand-coloured.
Satirises the dynastic ambitions of Napoleon on the Continent, planting a Pippin Tree representing the genealogy of Lord Moira. The "Royal Oak" of British constitutionalism is hacked at by supposed domestic sympathisers- Lord Howick, Lord Grenville, and the Marquis of Buckingham.
Originally published 1807.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open.