print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.3928
Title: Object: The Scotch Triumvirate
Description: Anti-Scottish satire: a scaffold with three Scotsmen, William Henry Cranstoun, James Lowry and Major James MacDonald, each with a rope around his neck; Cranstoun addresses his lover Mary Blandy in her shroud while her murdered father, also in a shroud, stands behind him; at Cranstoun's feet his victim, Kenrich Hossack, rises in a shroud from a hole in the platform; Macdonald holds a paper lettered "S Sea Annuities Dam my School Master" and claims, in a speech balloom, "I have Escap'd Hanging I own I'm a Highland Villian [sic]"; to left a sheet advertising, "Scotch Powder to cure the Itch" and a mock coat-of-arms supported by an ass's head and a peacock both dressed in plaid, and with the motto, "Imputdent, Rebellious/Lazy, and Proud". Etching
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Production date: 1752
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Dimensions: Height: 215 millimetres; Width: 310 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Mary Blandy was hanged for the murder of her father on 6 April 1752; Cranstoun escaped abroad but died in Flanders on 3 December. Lowry was hanged on 25 March 1752 for the murder of a sailor on his ship bound from Jamaica to London in December 1750. James Macdonald has not been identified.
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; scottish; execution
Associated names: Representation of: Hon William Henry Cranstoun; Representation of: Mary Blandy; Representation of: Captain James Lowry; Representation of: Kenrich Hossack; Representation of: Major James MacDonald; Representation of: Frances Blandy
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Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.3928

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