File:Jacobite broadside - Squire Ketch in Horrors or The Sneering Apparitions.jpg

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Jacobite broadside - Squire Ketch in Horrors or The Sneering Apparitions
Description
8 1/2x 9 1/2 coloured portrait of headless rebels, led by Simon Fraser of Lovat scaring a man sitting on a bed in chains in a cell. With a picture of scaffold and many men hanging from it in back left corner. "Printed and Sold at E. Griffin’s Map and Print Shop, next ye Globe Tavern, in Fleet Street, Price 6.d Plain, Coloured 1.s" According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the man is John Thrift (d. 1752), public executioner and murderer and the cartoon shows: 'Thrift in the condemned cell recoiling in terror as his Jacobite victims confront him, led by the three lords [Lovat, Balmerino and Kilmarnock], their grinning severed heads in their hands.' Others depicted may include Charles Radcliffe and some of the nine members of the Manchester Regiment, including Francis Towneley and George Fletcher, who were ‘hung, drawn and quartered’ by Thrift at Kennington on Wednesday July 30th 1746.
Date 1715; 1745 - 1746
Medium Prints and broadsides
Dimensions height: 24 cm (9.4 in); width: 24 cm (9.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,24U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,24U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1670994
Accession number
75241538
Source/Photographer
This image is available from the National Library of Scotland under the sequence number or Shelfmark ID Blaikie.SNPG. You can see this image in its original context, along with the rest of the Library's digital collections, in the NLS Digital Gallery
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