Description
Watercolour
Dimensions
5.5cm x 7cm (2.25in x 2.75in)
Footnote
Note: This unusual landscape-format miniature appears to be created from a combination of existing portraits and print sources, to depict a young prince in armour. The source of the Prince's likeness was irrelevant to Jacobite supporters, as long as the image was recognisable and in some way communicated the Stuarts' entitlement to the British throne. The window to the left-hand side of the composition seems to offer a view over sea to the British coastline, indicating the land that the Stuarts were claiming their sovereignty of but were presently separated from, hence the infamous Jacobite toast, to 'The King over the Water.' The composition with the landscape seen through a window in the top left hand corner strongly recalls portraits in the University and Trinity House collections in Aberdeen, attributed to Charles Whyt, suggesting a northern Scottish provenance.