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Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720 - 1788

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About this artwork

This badge takes its likeness from the ‘Highlander’ portrait attributed to Robert Strange which shows Prince Charles in a tartan jacket, bonnet and cockade. As such, it probably post-dates the 1745 Rising and, as on most engraved Jacobite glass, the image of the young prince is used to assert the persistence of passive resistance in defeat.

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Artists:: Unknown

After:: Sir Robert Strange (1721 - 1792) British

Title:: Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720 - 1788

Date:: About 1750

Materials:: Silver

Measurements:: 5.20 x 3.80 cm

Object type:: Sculpture

Credit line:: Purchased 1992

Accession number:: PG 2912

Gallery:: Scottish National Portrait Gallery (On Display)

Depicted:: Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Sir Robert Strange

Born in Kirkwall, Orkney, Strange was apprenticed to Richard Cooper, the Edinburgh engraver. An ardent Jacobite, he joined the 1745 Rising and went into exile after the defeat at Culloden. He married the sister of the Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart and studied engraving in Rouen and…

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