Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892

This study follows the iconographic trail from the early court portraits of the Italian-born prince to the idealized late-Victorian images of a tartan-clad heroic Highlander. Although primarily art historical in approach, it attempts to place the portraiture within the context of recent revisionist studies on Jacobitism, eighteenth-century propaganda, and Scottish identity. Illustrated.