Description
Copper engraved portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, engraved by T.Scott, c.1745?, 19.5 x 24cm, contemporary hand-colouring, border ruled in red
Footnote
Note: The engraving comprises a half-length portrait of Charles Edward Stuart facing left, wearing the order of the garter, a green sash and blue bonnet with white cockade. The portrait is framed within an ornamental cartouche and sits positioned on top of an anchor flanked by women, a rose and a thistle. A winding scroll reads Multum Ille iactatus In Alto Pervenit In Latium Tandem (Much tossed on the sea, he at last reaches Latium), identified by Neil Guthrie as words based on lines from the prologue of Virgil's Aeneid, comparing Charles to Aeneas, who succeeded to greatness in Rome despite past misfortune . Likewise, the rose and thistle are clear references to England and Scotland, whilst the flowers surrounding the cartouche show roses in bud and full-bloom forms, a common allegory of the three Stuart claimants.
The engraving appears to have been published independently of any other work. An uncoloured version can be found in the Walter Blaikie Collection of Jacobite prints in the National Library of Scotland, as variant 6.8B.