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4 - The Prince in Scotland

‘Daubed with Plaid and Crammed with Treason’: The Visual and Material Culture of Embodied Insurrection

from Part II - Within Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2019

Viccy Coltman
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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This chapter looks at the visual and material culture of Jacobitism focusing on a heterogeneous group of objects in the collections of the NMS, V&A and BM, that are defiantly Jacobite in their content and intent. These objects range across media, and across the artistic hierarchies of the so–called fine and decorative arts. There are one–off larger than life portraits of the Jacobite figure heads and their families painted by court artists in the cosmopolitan urban centres of Europe, which were then mass-produced as engravings and published as prints; objects with a distinctive cultural currency, like coins and medals, engraved glassware and embroidered textiles. There are items of dress and adornment, including fans, garters and snuffboxes, that formed part of a corporeal culture of display and concealment. Some of the objects are gendered; others are anamorphic and shape-shifting. Many objects carry inscribed textual mottoes, sometimes in Latin that quote directly from texts including Vergil’s Aeneid. Using the body as a synthesising thematic, the chapter aims to chart the associations of Jacobitism with Scotland though the use of cross–media images and objects, while at the same time, highlighting the possibilities of using such material as tools for historical enquiry.

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Art and Identity in Scotland
A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott
, pp. 139 - 177
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • The Prince in Scotland
  • Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: Art and Identity in Scotland
  • Online publication: 14 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108278133.005
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  • The Prince in Scotland
  • Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: Art and Identity in Scotland
  • Online publication: 14 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108278133.005
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  • The Prince in Scotland
  • Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: Art and Identity in Scotland
  • Online publication: 14 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108278133.005
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