Sujet

A Jacobite's Farewell, by T. Green, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

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A Jacobite's Farewell, by T. Green, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1872. Engraving of a painting. 'In the catalogue, the artist gives the following quotation from Paul Hentzner's "Journey into England, 1757": "London Bridge is covered on each side with houses, so disposed as to have the appearance of a continued street. Upon this is built a tower, on whose top the heads of such as have been executed for high treason are placed upon iron spikes." A Jacobite with his family is seeking to escape the fate of his former companions in rebellion, whose spiked heads he salutes as he steps into the boat that, we may suppose, is engaged to row him to some ship lying below bridge, which he hopes will convey him and his to an asylum on the Continent. That the peril is imminent seems to be indicated by the choice of earliest dawn for embarking...Yet the danger does not shake his fidelity to the lost cause he espoused...he cannot refrain from making a gesture, that might well betray him, towards the remains of the martyrs to that cause...The conception altogether conveys a thrilling impression of the savage nature of the old political passions the cruelty, dangers, and hardships they entailed on the innocent, often, as well as on the guilty'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A79_382

Model release

NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

48,1Mo (5,0Mo) / 39,8cm x 30,3cm / 4699 x 3577 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river building buildings London England River Thames Thames people male man men hat head house houses boat boats arts painting dawn daybreak danger escape art guy dangerous bridge bridges clothes British geography morning dramatic structure dress century rowing boat waving departure city of london gesturing Britain rebellion newspapers press picture clothing leaving print going concept pictures exhibition London Bridge United Kingdom time of day APPAREL B&W hand gesture rowboat departing escaping engraved engraving jacobite peril 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century tricorn tricorne The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News Jacobite Rebellion 1745-1746 Old London Bridge severed head TGN wood engraving ILN Jacobites newspaper Unknown Le Matin severed heads 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News Henry Towneley Green Green Henry Towneley Towneley Green Green Towneley