The White Cockade
Date1862
Artist
John Everett Millais
(English painter, 1829–1896)
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions24 × 17 3/4 in. (61 × 45.1 cm)
frame: 31 3/4 × 25 5/8 in. (80.6 × 65.1 cm)
frame: 31 3/4 × 25 5/8 in. (80.6 × 65.1 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-14
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe Pre-Raphaelites’ love for history extended beyond the Medieval Period. Scottish history was made popular during the Victorian era through the novels of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Millais was particularly attracted to the romantic period of Scottish history during which the Jacobites attempted to restore the Stuarts to the Scottish throne. The central figure, in mock 18th-century dress, sews a cockade (a knot of ribbons) onto a tricorn hat, signifying the wearer’s loyalty to the Stuarts.
