The Young Pretender, accompanied by two winged cupids, half reclines on a couch with one foot on a footstall, holding the handle of a warming pan with a portrait of the Old Pretender. Engraving, ca. 1745.

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[1745?]
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579688i
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Description

This print refers to the well-known allegations about the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, on June 10 1688: he was allegedly brought to the bed of his mother, Mary of Modena, in a warming-pan. This engraving is based on an earlier version (BM Cat. of satires no. 1156) with a verse from the Roxburghe ballads (vol iii, p. 724). This version alters the verse to commemorate the birth in 1720 of the Old Pretender's son, Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender) whose mother was of Polish origin, Maria Clementina Sobieska, commonly called Princess Clementina. The print was probably published around 1745 when the Young Pretender led the ill-fated Jacobite rebellion at Culloden

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1745?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 38.8 x 25.8 cm

Lettering

Thalpolectrum parturiens: or the wonderfull product of the court warming-pan. Extensive verse below image: 'A spritely polish nymph with tender heart ... And leave him helpless both of love & coin'

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol I, London 1978, no. 1156 (similar version)

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Wellcome Collection 579688i

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