12 1/2x 8 1/8 Engraving, political caricature (by "W.Pell/Pett"? (in pencil above) with "by WP" on inn sign) entitled "The Courier", showing the Duke of Cumberland (military commander and last-born but second surviving son of King George II) resting in a dilapidated inn named "Popularity The Blown Bladder", the inn sign displaying a tied bag (possibly referring to Scottish bagpipes), with the Duke's swollen and bandaged right foot alone emerging from the front door and resting on a battered stool, with a pair of crutches resting upright againts the external wall. The Duke was wounded in his right leg by a musket ball at the Battle of Dettingen (1743), where he won much glory. "Cumberland received a serious wound in the calf which was to trouble him for the rest of his life: a shot had left a hole ‘as big as a hen's egg and the extremities of some of the muscle which it had torn asunder in its passage were quite drove out of the wound’"[1]. A battered military pennant flying from the inn's roof. In the foreground are three newly planted saplings, each protected by a deer-guard and with a label displaying the royal crown (possibly a reference to the early promise of the Duke and his two brothers, the second-born having died in infancy). On another stool at top right is a crown fashioned from a Scottish Thistle, with cryptic words (or names) above two of the flowers "B_e" and M_d". The Duke was a notoriously brutal military commander ("Butcher Cumberland") in Scotland against the Jacobite Rebellion. In the foreground a courier arrives on a horse, following a signpost inscribed "Road to Hays", and blows a bugle to announce his arrival. Possibly as reference to "Hay's Castle" (maybe New Slains Castle or Delgatie Castle, both in Aberdeenshire), a Jacobite stronghold before the Battle of Culloden (1746) later captured by the Duke's forces. New Slains Castle was the home of Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll (died 1758), a notable Jacobite supporter, daughter of John Hay, 12th Earl of Erroll, Lord of Slains. Below is quoted in Latin "Quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore qui (redit exuvias indutus Achilli)" ("How greatly changed from that Hector (who returned dressed in the spoils of Achilles))", from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid, referring to the dream of Aeneas on seeing the disheveled ghost of the Trojan hero Hector, after the fall of Troy, a stark and tragic contrast to the mighty warrior he once was. Possibly a reference to the fall in popularity of the Duke due to his brutal actions in suppressing the Jacobites in Scotland, eclipsing his previous popularity after his heroic role at Dettingen.