"Highlanders in tartan kneeling on the left before the Duke of Cumberland and two officers on horseback, with a standing guard directing their submission; soldiers in a cloud of smoke and a castle in the background to left; after Wale; in an architectural frame headed by a trophy composed of a crown, laurel wreath, and weapons."--British Museum online catalogue and "The plate illustrates an article contrasting the present Duke of Cumberland, who is attacked for his affair with Lady Grosvenor (see British Museum Satires nos. 4440, 4441, 4844), and the previous holder of the title. Scotland and the Scots are also attacked."--British Museum online catalogue, Curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Rebellion crushed MDCCXLV
Description:
Title etched above and within image., Date inferred from that of the periodical in which the plate was published., Plate from: The Oxford magazine; or, Universal museum ..., v. 6, page 70 (February 1771)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790,, and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828.
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746. Henry Frederick, Scotland, Adultery, Scottish regiments, Soldiers, and Military officers
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXV and No. XXVI, of Countess Dunhoff (Denhoff) and the Duke of Cumberland
Alternative Title:
Nauticus and Countess Dunhoff
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 449.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790,
