Imaging Stuart Family Politics

Using the image of the royal child in texts, images and public celebrations, Catriona Murray explores the promotion of Stuart familial propaganda. Bringing together royal ritual, court portraiture and popular prints, she offers a distinctive perspective on this dimension of seventeenth-century political culture, exploring the fashioning and dismantling of reproductive imagery, as well as the role of visual display within these dialogues. This wide-ranging study will appeal to scholars of Stuart cultural, political and social history.