Lot 500
JACOBITES AND STUARTS
Collection of letters and documents
Auction: Day Two | Thursday 20 August from 10am | Lots 199 - 555
Description
‘INTERTAINMENTS AT LADY LANRICKS BURIALL JANUARY 4 1745, PRINCIPALL TABLE’, manuscript table-setting (apparently contemporary with the stated date), 23 x 20cm, together with 2 similar documents, one captioned ‘the table in the bed chamber’, 19 x 16cm (this pinned to a sheet of paper with recent caption ‘Occasion used for plotting “45” rebellion, Stewarts of Ballachulish House’), the other captioned ‘Scullery’, 20 x 16cm; LOUISE STUART, COUNTESS OF ALBANY, autograph letter signed in French to Luigi Farnesi, 1815, 1 p., folio; JOHN HOSSACK, PROVOST OF INVERNESS (reputed interceder on behalf of wounded Jacobites after Culloden), letter signed (possibly autograph) to Bailie Gilbert Gordon, Edinburgh, 1 July 1749; and 1 other
Provenance
Private Collection of a Gentleman