“THE EXILED JACOBITE”

‘It's hame, hame, hame, fain wad I be

Hame, hame, hame in my ain countrie.'

Signed with initials and dated '68 (lower right) and signed, Inscribed and dated “The Exiled Jacobite”/C. S. Lidderdale/1868/”Its hame, hame, hame,fain wad I be/”Hame, hame, hame in my ain countrie.” (on the reverse). Oil on panel 18 ½” x 12 5/8”

Provenance:

A G. Pirie; (+) Christie's London , 17 November 1906, lot 136 (with The White Cockade as a pair) (11 gms, to King).

Exhibited :

London , Royal Academy , 1868, no. 521

The Jacobite cause, which persisted for much of the 18th century, encompassed all that was lost in the events of 1688-1714. It was then that the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain' has been established, the Scots became subjects of a joint Parliament at Westminster and the Stuart monarchy was replaced by a Hanoverian one. Thus, the Jacobean cause united all the wounded feelings connected with the defeated order. It mourned the demise of the Old Monarchies, of English Catholicism and its European connections and of the rights of the Scots and the Irish to self-government. In England it commanded the sympathy of many High Tories, and of all who missed the fugitives and exiles. It inspired two great uprisings in 1715 and 1745, the latter which lead to a final campaign by the government to crush the dissenting force at Culloden Moor in 1746.