Prince Charles Edward Stuart, a printed Jacobite fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching by Sir Robert Strange of The Young Pretender in armour, attended by Cameron of Lochiel as Mars and Flora Macdonald as Bellona, Fame holds a laurel wreath over his head, Venus and Cupid are on the left and Britannia to whom a dove brings an olive branch; on the right Jupiter strikes down Envy and Discord with thunderbolts and the family of Hanover retreates, with ivory sticks, the guardsticks carved - 11in. (29cm.), 1745

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Prince Charles Edward Stuart, a printed Jacobite fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching by Sir Robert Strange of The Young Pretender in armour, attended by Cameron of Lochiel as Mars and Flora Macdonald as Bellona, Fame holds a laurel wreath over his head, Venus and Cupid are on the left and Britannia to whom a dove brings an olive branch; on the right Jupiter strikes down Envy and Discord with thunderbolts and the family of Hanover retreates, with ivory sticks, the guardsticks carved - 11in. (29cm.), 1745
See Colour Plate on front cover

Literature
Schreiber No. 3 p. 2 and S.,E 106

Lot Essay

There is a similar fan in the National Museum of Scotland (Ref. no. U13)

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