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Image Title: The Highlanders Medley, Or The Duke Triumphant, 1746

Date: 1746.

Summary: Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation, with at center, "His Royal Highness Wm., D. of Cumberland", half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding a sword labeled "Pro Patre et Patria" across his chest, surrounded by vignettes depicting scenes of William's success putting down the Jacobite uprising in Scotland and particulary the Battle of Culloden. Depicted are the rebel Scots Highlander clans marching to meet the Royal troops, being routed and in retreat, and caught in the net of Satan who drags them toward a triple gallows. Also shows Britannia and Prosperity, with beehives and a temple. Includes a portion of "A Royal Song. Sung by Mr. Beard at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden" and a playing card depicting Charles Edward, the pretender, also eight lines of verse at bottom describing the events depicted in most of the vignettes. William Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino, and George Mackenzie, Earl of Cromarty, were all sentenced to death, Kilmarnock and Balmerino were beheaded 18 August 1746, Cromarty's sentence was commuted.

Subjects: Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone,--Lord,--1688-1746
Britannia (Symbolic character)--1740-1750
Charles Edward,--Prince, grandson of James II, King of England,--1720-1788
Cromarty, George Mackenzie,--Earl of,--approximately 1702-1766
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746
Gallows--1740-1750
Hangings (Executions)--1740-1750
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Kilmarnock, William Boyd,--Earl of,--1704-1746
William Augustus,--Prince, Duke of Cumberland,--1721-1765

Original Media: Engraving

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