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The West Highland Museum in Fort William has acquired a mid-18th century circular snuff box with enamel tartan decoration. The hidden double lid opens to reveal a finely enamelled portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in tartan jacket with Orders of the Garter and Thistle decorations, white cockade and blue bonnet. ‘Hidden portrait snuff boxes such as this are among the most iconic Jacobite works of art,’ explains curator Vanessa Martin, while auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull, who sold the object, say the boxes are ‘rare in any form. This example is in particularly good condition and finely enamelled. The portrait is a variant of the famous Robert Strange example which likely date this piece to circa 1750.’ The West Highland Museum has been established as a ‘Jacobite museum’ since its inception in 1922. This piece will join many unique and unusual objects in the collection such as the Secret Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie and one of the Prince’s teeth.
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1 Dorothea Tanning, Tableau vivant (Living Picture), 1954. Pictures by Stewart Attwood. Purchased with assistance from the Henry and Sula Walton Fund and Art Fund 2 Frances MacDonald MacNair 1874–1921, Bows, Pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on vellum. Image courtesy of Patrick Bourne & Co 3 Dorothy Hogg, Articulated Necklace, 1969–70. Image courtesy of the National Museum of Scotland. Copyright: Stewart Attwood. Purchased with support from the Art Fund 4a Robin Gillanders (born 1952): seven silver gelatin prints, Ian’s Fleet, 2002 4b Suite of photographs by David Eustace (born 1961), Mar a Bha, 2018 4c Kevin McCollum (born 1975), Basement Series II , 2018. Purchased with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions 5a David Young Cameron RSA (1865–1945), Ben Ledi, etching and drypoint, 1911. Royal Scottish Academy collections. Purchased with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions
5b James McIntosh Patrick RSA (1907– 1998), Glencoe, The Three Sisters, etching and drypoint, 1928. Royal Scottish Academy collections. Purchased with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions
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6a/b Charles Meryon, Le petit pont, 1850. Images courtesy of The Hunterian. Purchased with support from the National Fund for Acquistions
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6b Charles Meryon, La morgue, 1854. Images courtesy of The Hunterian. Purchased with support from the National Fund for Acquistions
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7 Memorial cup presented to the family of Robert Findlay © Glasgow Life 8 Will Maclean, Nova Scotia Sacrament, 2004. Image courtesy of Stirling University, purchased with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions 9 Snuffbox with ‘hidden’ enamel portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, mid 18th century. Image courtesy of the West Highland Museum and acquired with the support of the National Fund for Acquisitions
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