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This will be a rare opportunity to see these paintings and to hear the story of the exiled
Jacobites.
Further prints will now be sold by the museum and the sale price will be announced shortly.
‘Imagine handling the actual banknotes created for the anticipated Jacobite world of the mid-18th century,’ said museum curator, Vanessa Martin.
Author calls for a reappraisal of the character and career of Bonnie Prince Charlie on the tercentenary of his birth
Gifted to the museum in July, the lace had sat undisturbed in a desk for more than half a century in the south of Scotland.
Today, the site is marked by the Glenfinnan Monument which was built in 1815 to commemorate the Jacobites who fought and fell during the ’45’.
Few in Lochaber are as well versed in the history and lore of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 as Glenfinnan resident, Tearlach (Charlie) MacFarlane. He is probably the most well-known and eminent specialist on Moidart genealogy.
The Highlanders threw their bonnets in the air and cheered, shouting: ‘Long live King James the Eighth and Charles Prince of Wales, Prosperity to Scotland, and no union’.
The Seven Men of Moidart – the Prince’s companions – were commemorated in the mid-1800s by Robertson MacDonald, the owner of the Moidart Estate at the time. He planted a row of seven beech trees in a field on the shore of Loch Moidart.
