{"id":160,"date":"2015-02-26T00:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:40:42","slug":"alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this satire, British artist and political cartoonist William Heath portrays the French emperor Napoleon saddled upon a mythical creature that combines the heraldic lion and unicorn from Great Britain&#8217;s Coat of Arms, representing the ruler&#8217;s aspirations for domination of Europe.  Created during the final years of the Napoleonic Wars, Heath depicts a tattered French flag and titles his work Alexander, for Alexander the Great, alluding to the folly of great conquerors throughout history and Napoleon&#8217;s probable demise at the hands of his own ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander William Heath (artist) Rudolph Ackermann (publisher) Hand-colored engraving c. 1814 The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library \" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128-100x65.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128-200x130.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/1320937135203128-450x293.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Alexander<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:247114\/\">View Alexander in the Brown Digital Repository<\/a><br>William Heath (artist)<br>Rudolph Ackermann (publisher)<br>Hand-colored engraving<br>c. 1814<br>The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this satire, British artist and political cartoonist William Heath portrays the French emperor Napoleon saddled upon a mythical creature that combines the heraldic lion and unicorn from Great Britain&#8217;s Coat of Arms, representing the ruler&#8217;s aspirations for domination of Europe. Created during the final years of the Napoleonic Wars, Heath depicts a tattered French <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/alexander\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Alexander<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}