--- title: The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/ description: A trompe-l'oeil sheet of overlapping prints centres on a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland with a sword, ringed by scenes of loyal troops, Britannia and… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746.jpg) # The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song) A trompe-l'oeil sheet of overlapping prints centres on a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland with a sword, ringed by scenes of loyal troops, Britannia and Prosperity, and Highlanders caught in Satan's net and dragged to a triple gallows. The song and verses call the clans 'Rebel', 'Banditti-like' and 'Traytors', and the Satan-and-gallows vignette pastes infernal stigma on the Jacobites. - **Date:** 1746 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Anonymous London engraver-publisher; song 'sung by Mr Beard at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden' - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Great Britain](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=great-britain) - **Medium:** [Print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=print) - **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media) - **Regime:** [Pelham Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=pelham-government) - **Leader:** [Henry Pelham](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=henry-pelham) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Religion](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=religion) - **Event:** [Jacobite Rising 1745](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=jacobite-rising-1745) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure - **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002699085/), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published London 1746, before 1931); LOC: No known restrictions on publication The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant, London, 1746; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-40213 ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` THE HIGHLANDERS MEDLEY, OR THE DUKE TRIUMPHANT. A Loyal SONG. Sung by Mr. Beard at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden FRom barren Callédonian Lands, Where Famine, uncontroul'd com- (mands, The Rebel Clans, in search of Prey, Come over the Hills and far away, O'er the Hills and far away, O'er the Hills and far away, The Rebel Clans, in search of Prey, Come over the Hills and far away, Regardless, whether wrong or righ[t] For Booty (not for Fame they figh[t]) Banditti-like, they storm they sla[y] They plunder rob and run away O'er the Hills &c. [W]ith these a vain Pretender's can[...] [an]d perjur'd Traytors Dupes [...] termin'd all, without Delay Conquer, Die, [...] O'er the [Hills ...] [further lines hidden behind the overlapping prints] [on the portrait cartouche:] His Royal Highness Wm D. of Cumberland. [on the sword blade: small lettering, catalogued by LOC as 'Pro Patre et Patria', not read here] Britons, behold the Royal Youth, tis he Who fights your Battles; sets your Country free. The Rebels hear, & tremble at his Name, And Ch--s with Envy, eyes his rising Fame. See there the Hightlanders, in fearfull flight, On Carrion Horses make a hasty Flight. Satan has caught 'em in his Net, & see He drags 'em onward to the triple Tree. Published according to Act of Parliament. 1746. price 6d ``` Read from the 6336 px LOC master. The left-hand song is partly covered by the overlapping vignettes (a playing-card figure and the portrait), so the second and third verses are cut off at the right and the lower lines are hidden; those parts are marked with [ ]. 'Hightlanders' and 'Callédonian' are as printed. 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