Special and Named Printed Collections in the National Library of Scotland
Prints in the Walter Blaikie Collection on deposit in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
| Shelfmark: | 15.13 |
| Title: | Miss Flora MacDonald |
| Description: | Flora Macdonald (1722-1790); Jacobite Heroine
12 1/2x 7 7/8
Portrait of "Miss Flora MacDonald, one of the most numerous clans in the Highlands of Scotland. She seems not won, yet won she is at length. In loves war, women use but half their strength."
Flora sits with scenery in the background, including a broken, scraggly tree. She wears a tartan shawl and holds a large portrait of Prince Charles in her hand |
| Subject: | Jacobite Ladies |
| Medium: | Line engraving on paper |
| Width: | 31.80 |
| Height: | 20.00 cm |
| References: | SP IV 93-2
WB 174 |
| Artist: | Le Clare (1746) |
| Engraver: | Johnson |
| Date: | 1747 |
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