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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth A Study in Portraiture 17201892 Author:Robin Nicholson This 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 propa... more »ganda, and Scottish identity.« less