A collection of prints of Jacobite interest
£688
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage. [London?], 1747 [second state, 1788], engraved by Samuel Ireland, 22 x 33cm, framed and glazed, a satire using Hogarth's caricature of Lovat's distinctive features on the execution for high treason of the elderly Jacobite at the Tower of London in April 1747, the last man to be publicly beheaded in Britain, uncommon; John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudon The Rt. Hon.ble.: the Earl of Loudoun, c.1756-7, engraved by Charles Spooner, after Allan Ramsay 1747, mezzotint, c.49 x 39cm including attractive gilt wood frame: Loudon (shown here much as he must have looked, shortly after the Rebellion, as a Highland officer of the British Army), had raised a regiment for service in the '45 but did not distinguish himself, nor were his later North American services, alluded to in the inscription of this print, any more successful; John Campbell, Second Duke of Argyll John Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, [N.p., n.d. but c.1750?], engraved by Johann Sebastian Müller, after William Aikman, c.20 x 12cm, in mount, Argyll claimed victory over the Jacobite Earl of Mar at Sheriffmuir in 1715; Ruthven Barrack Ruthven Castle, 1785, engraved by Peter Mazell, after Charles Cordiner, 22 x 17cm, mounted: the plate calls the Barrack 'Ruthven Castle' and 'Ruthven Ruins', this title being inscribed upon an ornate fragment of masonry. Ruthven Barrack, Badenoch, was built in 1719 as one of several such fortification to be 'a curb upon the Highlands'. It was besieged by the Jacobites in August 1745 and held by Sergeant Terence Molloy and twelve men of the 6th Foot against some 300 attackers but was destroyed by the Jacobites in 1746 (4)