Allegory with the fleeing young pretender, 1746, De Vlugtende Ionge Pretender (title on object), Allegory on the failure of the Second Jacobite Uprising in 1746. The young pretender Karel Eduard Stuart flees from the British Hercules and takes the hare to a waiting stagecoach. The pretender in armor with a long skirt and rosary around the waist. The French rooster is crowing on a rocky outcrop on the right. The plate contains various Latin inscriptions, at the bottom two six-line verses in Dutch., print, print maker: anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1746, paper, etching, engraving, height

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