Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892This study follows the iconographic trail from the early court portraits of the Italian-born prince to the idealized late-Victorian images of a tartan-clad heroic Highlander. Although primarily art historical in approach, it attempts to place the portraiture within the context of recent revisionist studies on Jacobitism, eighteenth-century propaganda, and Scottish identity. Illustrated. |
Contents
The Stuart Court and the Myths of Kingship 16031720 | 5 |
A Phoenix is born oer in Rome Artistic Response to the Stuart Heir | 20 |
A Highland Laddie The Early Tartan Portraits 17401760 | 50 |
The Elusive Subject 17461788 | 67 |
The Cult of Bonnie Prince Charlie 17601840 | 79 |
Stuart Blood is in my veins Victorian Reinvention | 97 |
A Checklist of Portraits of Prince Charles Edward Stuart | 115 |
A List of Significant Misattributed or Misidentified Portraits | 123 |
NineteenthCentury Paintings of Jacobite Subjects | 125 |
Notes | 129 |
Bibliography | 137 |
Index | 140 |
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