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Author: Hunt,Charles Date: 1982 Purpose: Robert.Wilson A.Man.of.the.World - Exhibition.Cata]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]>
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]>
- The first symbol is of a crowned thistle: this has a long history in Scotland and conveys the idea of Scotland as an independent monarchy, going back to remotest antiquity. In the Jacobite version Scottish history, the Stuart monarchs are representatives of an unbroken line stretching back to the mythical Fergus.

- The second Symbol is a crowned heart pierced with arrows: the pierced heart is a conventional representation of suffering within Catholic symbolism, here the fact that the heart is crowned suggests that it represents the sufferings of the king in exile.

- The third symbol is the most enigmatic: a sheaf of corn with birds perching on it. The birds themselves may indicate no more than that the corn is ripe and the grain is ready to be eaten. The symbol of the sheaf itself may go back to a symbolic tradition whereby the ripe harvest represents a monarch ripe in wisdom. There is an added secret meaning of the kind in which the Jacobites delighted: the Latin for "ripe corn" is "matura arista" which is anagram of "Maria Stuarta". There are several instances of this anagram being used in the seventeenth century.]]> Provenance unknown.]]> ]]> ]]>