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Article: Robin Nicholson. Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: a Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2003
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Cranbury, N. J.: Bucknell University Press. 2002. Pp. 156. $59.50. ISBN 0-8387-5495-3.
Robin Nicholson is a historian who has been Curator of Drambuie's Scottish and Jacobite art collection since 1992, and is thus a scholar who has contemporary experience of both the fine art market and the heritage industry. This has given him the ability to enter eighteenth-century scholarship from a fresh angle, and he has been particularly to the fore in recent discussions of Jacobite iconography. A number of articles have now been followed by a fuller study.
Bonnie Prince Charlie is (despite its market-led title) a new look at the importance of art as a means of ...