True and Remarkable History of the Pretender's Ridder, 1746

This Dutch engraving satirizes the Jacobite rising and its young Scottish claimant through sequential narrative panels—a format ancestral to the comic strip. The upper scenes depict military conflict and court intrigue; the lower section unfolds the story in dense letterpress accompanied by ornamental capitals. The print exemplifies 18th-century European political satire's reliance on visual narrative, exaggeration of physiognomy, and textual commentary to mock dynastic pretenders and their followers. Such engravings, distributed as broadsheets and collected in picture-sheets (Bilderbogen), established the visual language and serialized storytelling conventions that would evolve through Hogarth and Gillray into modern sequential art.