Canvas Print: The Highlanders Medley, Or The Duke Triumphant, 1746
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Canvas Print: The Highlanders Medley, Or The Duke Triumphant, 1746

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  • Title: The Highlanders Medley, Or The Duke Triumphant, 1746
  • Description: Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation, with at center, "His Royal Highness Wm., D. of Cumberland", half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding a sword labeled "Pro Patre et Patria" across his chest, surrounded by vignettes depicting scenes of William's success putting down the Jacobite uprising in Scotland and particulary the Battle of Culloden. Depicted are the rebel Scots Highlander clans marching to meet the Royal troops, being routed and in retreat, and caught in the net of Satan who drags them toward a triple gallows. Also shows Britannia and Prosperity, with beehives and a temple. Includes a portion of "A Royal Song. Sung by Mr. Beard at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden" and a playing card depicting Charles Edward, the pretender, also eight lines of verse at bottom describing the events depicted in most of the vignettes. William Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino, and George Mackenzie, Earl of Cromarty, were all sentenced to death, Kilmarnock and Balmerino were beheaded 18 August 1746, Cromarty's sentence was commuted.
  • Subjects: Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone,--Lord,--1688-1746, Britannia (Symbolic character)--1740-1750, Charles Edward,--Prince, grandson of James II, King of England,--1720-1788, Cromarty, George Mackenzie,--Earl of,--approximately 1702-1766, Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, Gallows--1740-1750, Hangings (Executions)--1740-1750, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Kilmarnock, William Boyd,--Earl of,--1704-1746, William Augustus,--Prince, Duke of Cumberland,--1721-1765
  • Collection: Cartoon Prints, British. The cartoon prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the British Cartoon Prints Collection were published primarily between 1780 to 1830, an era dominated by the prodigious talents and prolific efforts of such famous caricaturists as James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The cartoons highlight aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater.
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