A Scotsman in Highland dress seated with his legs down two latrines, grasping the "Act for establishing Popery"; representing the Scottish rejection of the Catholic Relief Act. Etching, 1779.

Date:
4 June 1779
Reference:
12169i
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The print contains the verse: "Tis a bra' bonny seat, o' my Saul, Sawney cries, I never beheld sic before with my eyes, such a place in aw' Scotland I never could meet, for the high & the low ease themselves in the street."

On the wall is a thistle growing out of an inverted crown (presenting the accusation of the Scots as Jacobites) and the inscription: "Nemo me impune lacessit"

Publication/Creation

London (111 Oxford Street) : Mrs Holt, 4 June 1779.

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 35.5 x 25.2 cm

Lettering

Sawney in the bog-house. Bears number bottom right : 3

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. V, London 1935, no. 5539

Reference

Wellcome Collection 12169i

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