(681) Blaikie.SNPG.9.15 - True Contrast
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| Jacobite prints and broadsides > (681) Blaikie.SNPG.9.15 - True Contrast |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75240848 |
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| Description | Satire "The True Contrast" between Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Cumberland Portrait of Prince Charles Stuart and Duke of Cumberland, with 4 columns of verse below picture and text "Published according to Act of Parliament, October 16: 1749 by J Gibson Engraver in Bartlett Street near Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, Price sixpence" The Duke is entitled "The Royal British Hero" who "Maintains Liberty and Property, The Holy Bible, Libertry of Conscience, Free Parliaments, Magna Charta" and Prince Charles is "The Frightened Italian Bravo" who "would have brought in Popery and slavery, Monkish Legends, The Bloody Inquisition, Arbitrary Power, No Faith w.th. Hereticks" Below portraits are two portrayals of Culloden, one showing Cumberland victorious and the other showing Prince Charles "viewing the action at a distance, and out of danger", defeated. |
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| Description | Illustrations of people and events relating to the Jacobite Rebellions in Scottish history (1715 and 1745-46). Also includes portraits of Mary Stuart and earlier Scottish monarchs, and broadsides. Collected by Walter Blaikie. Material stored at the National Galleries of Scotland. |
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| Shelfmark | Blaikie.SNPG |
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