![[William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock] Miss Cameron. Miss Macdonald.](jpegs/57243.jpg)
[William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock] Miss Cameron. Miss Macdonald.How happy could I be with either / were t'other dear Charmer away. / Beg. Op.
[London Magazine, 1747.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 185mm (4 x 7¼"). A little staining, trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Three medallion portraits: an untitled one of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1709-1746), flanked by portraits of two women. He was captured at the Battle of Cullodon and executed. The lines from John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera' refer to his statement after his capture: ''for the two Kings and their rights, I cared not a farthing which prevailed; but I was starving''.
Sharpe 699, state i of ii, misidentified as Charles Edward Stuart; BM Satires 2853.
[Ref: 57243] £280.00
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 185mm (4 x 7¼"). A little staining, trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Three medallion portraits: an untitled one of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1709-1746), flanked by portraits of two women. He was captured at the Battle of Cullodon and executed. The lines from John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera' refer to his statement after his capture: ''for the two Kings and their rights, I cared not a farthing which prevailed; but I was starving''.
Sharpe 699, state i of ii, misidentified as Charles Edward Stuart; BM Satires 2853.
[Ref: 57243] £280.00