(208) Blaikie.SNPG.19.14 - Squire Ketch in Horrors or The Sneering Apparitions
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| Jacobite prints and broadsides > (208) Blaikie.SNPG.19.14 - Squire Ketch in Horrors or The Sneering Apparitions |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75241538 |
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| Description | 8 1/2x 9 1/2 coloured portrait of headless rebels, led by Simon Fraser of Lovat scaring a man sitting on a bed in chains in a cell. With a picture of scaffold and many men hanging from it in back left corner. "Printed and Sold at E. Griffin’s Map and Print Shop, next ye Globe Tavern, in Fleet Street, Price 6.d Plain, Coloured 1.s" According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the man is John Thrift (d. 1752), public executioner and murderer and the cartoon shows: 'Thrift in the condemned cell recoiling in terror as his Jacobite victims confront him, led by the three lords [Lovat, Balmerino and Kilmarnock], their grinning severed heads in their hands.' Others depicted may include Charles Radcliffe and some of the nine members of the Manchester Regiment, including Francis Towneley and George Fletcher, who were ‘hung, drawn and quartered’ by Thrift at Kennington on Wednesday July 30th 1746. |
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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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