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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the making of a myth : a study in portraiture, 1720-1892 / Robin Nicholson.
LIBRA DA814.A5 N55 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Robin, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788.
- Charles Edward.
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788--Portraits.
- Princes--Great Britain--Biography.
- Princes.
- Portraits.
- Great Britain.
- Scotland--History--18th century.
- Scotland.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Portraiture and Pretense 9
- 1. The Stuart Court and the Myths of Kingship, 1603-1720 17
- 2. "A Phoenix is born o'er in Rome": Artistic Response to the Stuart Heir 32
- 3. "A Highland Laddie": The Early Tartan Portraits, 1740-1760 62
- 4. The Elusive Subject, 1746-1788 81
- 5. The Cult of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," 1760-1840 93
- 6. "Stuart blood is in my veins": Victorian Reinvention 111
- Appendix 1 A Checklist of Portraits of Prince Charles Edward Stuart 129
- Appendix 2 A List of Significant Misattributed or Misidentified Portraits 137
- Appendix 3 Nineteenth-Century Paintaings of Jacobite Subjects 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838754953
- OCLC:
- 47797874
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