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Creator:
James Gillray, 1756–1815
Published by Hannah Humphrey, ca. 1745–1818
Title:
The New Dynasty; or the Little Corsican Gardener Planting a Royal Pippin-Tree. -All the Talents (Busy in) are Clearing the Ground of the Old Timber.
Date:
1807
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 14 7/8 inches (27.9 × 37.8 cm), Plate: 9 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (24.8 × 34.9 cm), Image: 9 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (23.5 × 34.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Watermark, center left: "J. WHATMAN"

Lettered inside image: "Pub'd June 25th, 1807 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London Grafts of | King-Pippins | for Brentford | Wimbledon & | Botley. | Eutrurian | Pippin | Wirtemburg | PIPPIN | SAXON | PIPPIN | HOLLAND | PIPPIN | ITALIAN | PIPPIN | CORSICAN GRAFTING Knife | WILLIAM | the | Norman | Robber | ROYAL PIPPIN | Plan- | tagenet | Beheaded | in 1415 | Crookback | Richard - | killed | at Bosworth | Duchess | of Clarence | put to death | in 1453 | Henry | de la Pole | beheaded | in 1538 | Edmund | 4th son of | Henry 3d | Beheaded | in 1505 | Hungerford | Beheaded | 1406 | Countess | Salisbury | Beheaded | in 1505 | Projet | pour | Agrandisser | les | Jardins | Imperial | CATHOLIC | CLEAVER | BROAD | BORROM | HATCHET | THE ROYAL-OAK | WHIG | Cleaver | PROTESTANT | FAITH | INTEGRITY | of the | LORDS | INDEPENDENCE | of the Commons | LIBERTY | of the | Press | J's Gillray inv't & fec't"; lettered below image: "The New Dynasty: -or- the little Corsican Gardiner, planting a Royal-Pippin Treet._"All the Talents." busy, in Clearing the Ground of the Old Timber. | Vide. the Berline Telegraph, of May 21st, 1807- Artical-The Genealogy of the Royal-Race of the King of Ballynahinch - see Mor'g Post June 17th."

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.791
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Associated People:
Hastings, Francis Rawdon, first marquess of Hastings and second earl of Moira (1754–1826), army officer and politician
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French
Pole, Henry, Baron Montagu (1492–1539), British nobleman
Richard III (1452–1485), king of England and lord of Ireland
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Benevento (1754–1838), French diplomat
Tooke, John Horne [formerly John Horne] (1736–1812), radical and philologist
William I [known as William the conquereor] (1027/8–1087), king of England and duke of Normandy
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), politician
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), politician/statesman
Hungerford, Robert, third Baron Hungerford and Baron Moleyns (ca. 1423–1464), British nobleman and administrator
Grenville, George Nugent-Temple-, first marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813), British politician
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician
Beauharnais, Eugène de (1781–1824), French military/naval officer
Charlotte Augusta Matilda, princess royal (1766–1828), Queen of Württemberg, consort of Friedrich I
Cobbett, William (1763–1835), political writer and farmer
Frederick Augustus I and III (1750–1827), Elector and King of Saxony and Grand Duke of Warsaw
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43370
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British Museum, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, 11 volumes in 12, British Museum Publications, London, no. 10744, NE55 G7 L63 A52 1978 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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