Jenny Cameron.
Hogarth Pinxt.
Published as the Act directs by J. Clarke, No.291, Strand Febuary 8th. 1788.
A rare stipple. Plate 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), good margins.
Half-length portrait of a pretty young woman in low-cut dress and tartan shawl. The wife of Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (the last Jacobite to be executed, 1753), she came to London to try and stop his execution, gaining some sympathy, and was probably the 'Jenny Cameron' who visited the exiled Old Pretender in Rome and petitioned him for a pension in the late 1750s. She is often confused with Jenny Cameron of Glendessary (c.1700-72) who rumoured to have raised a troop of men in support of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, fighting with them, and being the mistress of the Young Pretender.
Not in Sharpe.
[Ref: 20099] £230.00
Published as the Act directs by J. Clarke, No.291, Strand Febuary 8th. 1788.
A rare stipple. Plate 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), good margins.
Half-length portrait of a pretty young woman in low-cut dress and tartan shawl. The wife of Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (the last Jacobite to be executed, 1753), she came to London to try and stop his execution, gaining some sympathy, and was probably the 'Jenny Cameron' who visited the exiled Old Pretender in Rome and petitioned him for a pension in the late 1750s. She is often confused with Jenny Cameron of Glendessary (c.1700-72) who rumoured to have raised a troop of men in support of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, fighting with them, and being the mistress of the Young Pretender.
Not in Sharpe.
[Ref: 20099] £230.00