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The Scotch Triumvirate   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Scotch Triumvirate
Description
English: Anti-Scottish satire: a scaffold with three Scotsmen, William Henry Cranstoun, James Lowry and Major James MacDonald, each with a rope around his neck; Cranstoun addresses his lover Mary Blandy in her shroud while her murdered father, also in a shroud, stands behind him; at Cranstoun's feet his victim, Kenrich Hossack, rises in a shroud from a hole in the platform; Macdonald holds a paper lettered "S Sea Annuities Dam my School Master" and claims, in a speech balloom, "I have Escap'd Hanging I own I'm a Highland Villian [sic]"; to left a sheet advertising, "Scotch Powder to cure the Itch" and a mock coat-of-arms supported by an ass's head and a peacock both dressed in plaid, and with the motto, "Imputdent, Rebellious/Lazy, and Proud".
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Depicted people Representation of: Hon William Henry Cranstoun
Date 1752
date QS:P571,+1752-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 215 millimetres
Width: 310 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3928
Notes Mary Blandy was hanged for the murder of her father on 6 April 1752; Cranstoun escaped abroad but died in Flanders on 3 December. Lowry was hanged on 25 March 1752 for the murder of a sailor on his ship bound from Jamaica to London in December 1750. James Macdonald has not been identified.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3928
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