Lot 179
Treaty of Union - Lizars, William Home
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts | 429
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
The signatures and seals of the English and Scottish commissioners for the Treaty of Union, signed 22 July 1706, facsimile engraved by William Home Lizars, c.1815, and printed subsequently Edinburgh: c.1825 (watermark J. Whatman 1825), hand-coloured seals, framed and glazed, c.52 x 65cm including frame
Footnote
Note: This facsimile was intended for inclusion in the Appendix to Acts of the Parliament of Scotland volume XI (Reign of Queen Anne), 1824. However, most copies of the work are published without this illustration. A small stock of the printed but unbound sheets survived into the 1970s but is now dispersed. The copperplate remains in the National Records of Scotland. This example is untrimmed.