Perkins Triumf (BM 1859,0709.1576)

Satire on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, after BMSat 2636; the Young Pretender ("Perkin") rides in a carriage with Louis XV as coachman, the Pope as postilion and a procession of Scots behind carrying banners with the names of earlier conspirators (Henry Garnett, Robert Catesby and Jacques Clément); in the background, the Admiralty building, St James's Palace, Westminster Abbey, and stereotypical images of Roman Catholicism (burning at the stake, praying before a cross, mass hangings, a procession of priests); in the foreground, to left, a man with a toy windmill (alluding to the birth of the Old Pretender, said to have been the son of a miller) rides in an armoured box on the back of a frog, and to right, a Jesuit is seated on a snail (see BMSat 1205); at the bottom of the sheet, a portrait of the Young Pretender in an oval with flags and instruments of war on either side, and a foolscap coronet above with an inscription referring to Pope Benedict. 1745
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