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: | 15.16 |
| Title: | Shepherdess |
| Description: | Flora Macdonald (1722-1790); Jacobite Heroine
As a shepardess
14x 9 3/4
Portrait of Flora Macdonald holding a shepherd's crook in one hand and flowers in the other, with a lamb at her side. She's sitting outside. Text below: As harmless as a Turle of the Woods, As op'ning Flowers untained yet n the Winds Fair as the Summer Beauty of the Fields, The Pride of Jature, and the Joy of Sense." |
| Subject: | Jacobite Ladies |
| Medium: | Mezzotint engraving on paper |
| Width: | 35.60 |
| Height: | 24.80 cm |
| References: | WB 170 |
| Artist: | Pickering |
| Engraver: | Johannes Faber |
| Notes: | Handwritten on back: "called Flora Macdonald but no so" |
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