Sujet

Execution on Tower Hill, London, 1746. Artist: Anon

Légende

Execution on Tower Hill, London, 1746. Scene showing William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, and Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch, being beheaded at Tower Hill for their part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Tower of London is on the right and a crowd of spectators is gathered around the execution platform to the left. Below is a description.

Date

1746

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B03_031

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,4Mo (1,7Mo) / 32,9cm x 23,2cm / 3880 x 2739 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings London England people crowds country spectators watching spectator British English castle Scotland death fortification location SCOTTISH century platform Britain onlookers rebellion rebel concept punishment Tower of London B&W MONOCHROME beheaded jacobite decapitated execution dais black & white black and white B W onlooker 18th century decapitation Eighteenth Century Scots Guildhall Library & Art Gallery beheading Jacobite Rebellion 1745-1746 TGN Tower Hill Jacobites engraving Anon Anonymous William Arthur Elphinstone Boyd 4th Earl of William Boyd 4th Earl of Kilmarnock 4th Earl of Kilmarnock Earl of Kilmarnock Lord Kilmarnock Kilmarnock Arthur Elphinstone 6th Lord Balmerinoch 6