‘These Vagabond Creatures’: the Jacobite Army in Derby in 1745

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Join Lucy Bamford, Senior Curator of Art and co-curator of the exhibition Hogarth’s Britons, as she explores surviving eye-witness accounts and press reports of the Jacobite Army’s occupation of Derby in December 1745. There are tales here to shock, outrage, and make you laugh. Did we mention the naked ‘spy’…?

Hogarth’s Britons will explore how the artist defined British nationhood and identity at a time of division and rebellion at home and conflict abroad. Major loans include Hogarth’s The March of the Guards to Finchley (Foundling Museum), Marriage-a-la-Mode, The Shrimp Girl (National Gallery) and The Beggar’s Opera (Birmingham Museums), alongside iconic portraits of the Stuarts from the National Portrait Gallery and Allan Ramsay’s newly discovered portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Scottish National Galleries), painted in Edinburgh in preparation for his advance into England. This will be the first time this work has returned to Derby since 1745. The exhibition will also bring together items from Derby Museums and private collections in Derbyshire, representing local divided loyalties and the experience of life under Jacobite-army occupation.

This is the first Hogarth exhibition to be staged in Derby. As Hogarth’s Britons will reveal, his vibrant images, rich in social and political commentary, continue to resonate to this day.

Exhibition co-curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding, acclaimed art historian and author of Jacobites (2016) and Hogarth: Life in Progress (2021), and Lucy Bamford, Senior Curator of Art at Derby Museums.

Booking essential. Limited places.

Suitable for ages 18+

2pm - 3pm