Vue de L´ Eglise St. Giles á Edimbourg

Title

Vue de L´ Eglise St. Giles á Edimbourg

Description

View of the church St. Gieles in Edinburgh, Scotland.

ca. 1760

Artist

Basset (1750-1840)

Basset was a Paris print publisher, printseller, wallpaper manufacturer and the son of André Basset. He married in 1787 and was very active during the revolutionary period. He was situated in Paris at rue Saint Jacques no.64 ), his firm remained at least until 1885.

Historical Description

Beginning in the sixth century, the area that is now Scotland was divided into three areas: Pictland, a patchwork of small lordships in central Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the European Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707. By inheritance in 1603, James VI of Scotland became king of England and Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms. Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with the Kingdom of England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain.The Treaty of Eternal Peace was signed in 1502 by James IV, Scotland and Henry VII, England. James married Henry's daughter Margaret Tudor. James marched into England under the Auld Alliance to support France and died in Flodden in 1513 as the last British monarch in battle. In 1560 the Edinburgh Treaty ended the Anglo-French conflict and recognized Protestant Elizabeth I as Queen of England. The Scottish Parliament met and immediately accepted the Scottish confession, which signaled the sharpness of the Scottish Reformation and thus the break with papal authority and Catholic teaching. Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, had to abdicate in 1567.With trade tariffs with England abolished, trade blossomed, especially with Colonial America. The clippers belonging to the Glasgow Tobacco Lords were the fastest ships on the route to Virginia. Until the American War of Independence in 1776, Glasgow was the world's premier tobacco port, dominating world trade.[60] The disparity between the wealth of the merchant classes of the Scottish Lowlands and the ancient clans of the Scottish Highlands grew, amplifying centuries of division.The deposed Jacobite Stuart claimants had remained popular in the Highlands and north-east, particularly amongst non-Presbyterians, including Roman Catholics and Episcopalian Protestants. However, two major Jacobite risings launched in 1715 and 1745 failed to remove the House of Hanover from the British throne. The threat of the Jacobite movement to the United Kingdom and its monarchs effectively ended at the Battle of Culloden, Great Britain's last pitched battle. The Battle of Altimarlach in 1680 was the last significant clan battle fought between highland clans. In 1706, the Treaty of Union was agreed between representatives of the Scots Parliament and the Parliament of England. The following year, twin Acts of Union were passed by both parliaments to create the united Kingdom of Great Britain with effect from 1707 with popular opposition and anti-union riots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere.