"An escutcheon with four quarterings, the flower and leaves of a thistle serving as crest and supporters. The dexter chief and and sinister base quarters are covered with a lattice of rectangular bars suggesting a tartan. In the dexter chief quarter is ajar inscribed 'Brimstone'; in the dexter base, a French fleur-de-lis flag across a broken broadsword; in the sinister chief is a decapitated and bleeding head wearing a Scots bonnet across a headsman's axe; in the sinister base a set of bagpipes. The jewel of the order of the Thistle hangs from a ribbon draped round the escutcheon, with the motto 'Nemo. me. impune. lacessit.', but in place of the St. Andrew's cross is a pair of gloved hands, the right hand adjusting the glove of the left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., In lower left of image: Gentlemens designs executed gratis., Temporary local subject terms: Influence of Scotland -- Jacobites -- Coat of arms -- Allusion to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811,, and The '6' in the imprint statement has been written over with a '7'.
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 9, 1786 [i.e. 7], by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, Piccadilly
