Nach dem Englisch[en] Original. Simon Lord Lovat ein Schottlaend ...
Hogarth, William,1697-1764.
Hamb. : Bey d. Gel.-Zeit Verl. [i.e. Grund],
[1747].
Very rare illustrated broadside after a Hogarth original, apparently an extended advertisement for the German translation of the recently-executed Lord Lovat's memoires. The translation had just been published by the Hamburg publisher Grund. When Lovat was being brought to London he was met at St. Alban's by Hogarth. Lovat was later impeached, tried, found guilty, and, March 18, 1747, condemned to death, and executed on Tower Hill, Thursday, April 9, 1747. In this adaptation of Hogarth's original, even Lovat's memoires lying open on his desk have been translated for the German viewer as "Memoirs ... Schotland &c Praettendent Rebellion". Beneath the portrait is an engraved 8-line biography giving a sketch of the doomed rebel's life and misdeeds, as well as an account of his trial and execution.
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
Germany Hamburg.