A half length portrait of a man turned sideways, left elbow resting against a pillar. He is wearing a long curly white wig, brown coat and blue drape, draped over the right shoulder.
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A tartan suit owned by an English Jacobite

Fashion and textiles, History and cultures, Scotland

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Not all supporters of the Jacobite cause were Scottish. Find out more about a magnificent tartan suit that belonged to Sir John Hynde Cotton - known to some as ‘one of the most zealous Jacobites in England’.

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