Sibyl Europæa - Acts of Union - University of Aberdeen

Introduction
Articles of Union
The Stuart Vision of Union
James VI & I
Castlemaine's Embassy
Protestant Parliaments & Unions
William of Orange
The Union of 1707
Queen Anne and George, Prince of Denmark
The Debate over Union
The Impact of Union
Impact of the articles
Lecture Notes
Competing Unions
Stuart Unionism
James VIII & III
Basket hilt sword
Hanoverian Unionism
King's, Marischal and the Question of Union
Maces of King’s College and Marischal College
Aberdeen Jacobitism
Sibyl Europæa
Aberdeen Unionism
Dr James Fraser
Securing Union
Acknowledgements

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Sibyl Europæa
Repainted by Cosmo Alexander, 1761

One of an original set of twelve Sibyls, arguably by George Jamesone, which was presented to King's College in 1640 by Principal William Guild. Sibyls, in their role of foretellers of the Christian Revelation, formed part of a decorative tradition in seventeenth-century Scotland.

Cosmo Alexander, a Jacobite who fled to Rome for some years after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, undertook the restoration of the series. Sibyl Europæa holds a sceptre, which may be seen to align her with the figure of Europa, one of the symbolic female personifications of the Four Parts of the World, used in art to promote the authority of the Catholic Church.