Simon the Dutch Skipper.
G. Aikman pinx. J. Smith fec. 1719. Mezzotint. 345 x 250mm, 13½ x 9¾". Mounted on album paper. Thomas, sixth Earl of Haddington (1680-1735), anti-Jacobite who fought at Sheriffmuir in 1715, and agriculturalist. His dress of a Dutch sea captain is apparently alluding to his Hanoverian sympathies. Ex collections of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd and Norman Blackburn.
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