Miss Flora MacDonald one of the most numerous clans in the Highlands of Scotland / [graphic]

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Title: Miss Flora MacDonald one of the most numerous clans in the Highlands of Scotland / [graphic]
Creator: Johnson, active 18th century, printmaker
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Le Clare, active early 18th century, artist.
Published / Created: [1747]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: George Bickham?
Abstract: Portrait, three-quarter length seated slightly facing right, looking towards the viewer over shoulder, left hand holding a lock of her long hair, holding an oval portrait of Prince Charles Edward, wearing a tartan shawl, with a landscape background
Description: Title engraved below image.
Verse following title: She seems not won, yet won she is at length, In loves war, women use but half their strength.
Scottish Jacobite heroine who helped Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, to escape from Scotland after his defeat in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46; married Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh.
Provenance: Blackett Collection; November 1965;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 328 x 197 mm, on sheet 379 x 240 mm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Engravings England London 1747
Material: etching & engraving ;
Subject (Name): MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
Subject (Topic): Women
Scottish
Subjects: MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 > Portraits
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 > Portraits
Women > Scottish
England > London > 1747

Access: Public
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