- Title Information
- Title
- John Hay and his New Coat of Arms
- Name:
Personal (naf)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
- Name Part
- Davenport, Homer
- Name Part:
Date
- 1867-1912
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- Creator
- Type of Resource (primo)
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- images
- Genre (aat)
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- clipping
- Abstract:
general
(displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
- Davenport's cartoon plays upon the symbolism of the British Royal Arms to comment on a moment of diplomatic tension. The central figure seems to "revise" the heraldic shield while the lion and unicorn observe warily, underscoring British anxieties about American assertiveness in transatlantic negotiations. By altering the emblems of monarchy, Davenport humorously suggests that U.S. diplomacy was reshaping the traditional authority and posture of the British Empire. British royal symbolism is quite literally redrafted, as an American figure revises the heraldic shield under the wary gaze of the lion and unicorn.
- Note:
preferredcitation
- John Hay and his New Coat of Arms, John Hay Papers, Ms.Hay Box 22XXX, Folder 5, Brown University Library
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (iso639)
- eng
- Language Term:
Text
- English
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1.0
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en")
- Not in Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.
- Subject
- Name:
Personal (naf)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
- Name Part
- Hay, John, 1838-1905
- Subject (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Topic
- Caricatures and cartoons--Political aspects
- Subject (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Topic
- Heraldry--Great Britain
- Subject (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Geographic
- China
- Related Item:
Host
- Title Information
- Title
- John Hay Papers
- Identifier:
Local
- Ms.Hay Box 22XXX, Folder 5
- Location
- Physical Location
- Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
- Note
(displayLabel="Digital object made available by")
- Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)