print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3789
- Title
- Object: A Papist, with his Jacobite Footman
- Description
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A satire suggesting divided loyalties of some senior Anglican clerics during the Jacobite Rising. A
horseman, partly in military and partly in clerical dress gallops along the north bank of the Thames. He wears a laced cocked hat covering a dishevelled bag wig and clerical bands at his neck. He clasps a crucifix in one hand, has a dagger in his belt, a mitre on his saddle and a roll of relics at his back. He says “Let us do Evil, that good may come. Whole Damnation is just”. An elderly footman runs in front of him wearing a jockey’s cap, a tight fitted jacket and a tartan sash round his waist, he carries a long brass stick on which is written "Indefensible Hereditary Right" and says “Oh – Oh – All’s Lost”. A full wig lies on the ground in front of him and a ribbon floats behind him on which is written "That the Whole East India Fleet was either taken or lost. Lyes of the Day 200000 landed". Another ribbon under the horse’s hooves has written on it "That his Majesty would have Compounded for ye Kingdom of Scotland if he might [be] left in quiet Possession of England". A winged devil flies overhead on Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s banner, lettered with his motto, "Tandem Triumphans". The devil wears boots with spurs, clerical bands and a large laced cocked hat. He says “All these things
will I give thee, if thou will fall down & worship me” gesturing towards Lambeth Palace in the
background on the far bank of the river.
Three columns of verse beneath refer to William and Thomas Sherlock, alleging that both father and son had secret Jacobite sympathies and in earlier constitutional crises had delayed announcing their loyalties until the outcome of events was clear. 1746
Etching
- Production date
- 1746
- Dimensions
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Height: 168 millimetres (image)
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Height: 196 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 304 millimetres (image)
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Width: 304 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The rider and his horse seem to have been iinspired by Dutch caricatures of "callot figures", see 1941,0327.42
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Jacobite Rebellion 1745
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3789
