Sawney in the bog-house [graphic].

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Title: Sawney in the bog-house [graphic].
Contributor: Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [1762]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: E. Sumpter
Abstract: A satire on a Highland soldier's attempts to use a lavatory in London. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board as he urinates onto the floor. Behind and to the right on the stone wall are posted various drawings and broadsides. His sword is to his right
Description: Title from item.
Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762.
Plate numbered '39' in upper right corner.
Two columns of verse below image: Sawney who ever from his birth had dropt his cates on Mother Earth shewn to a boghouse, with surprise, down each hole thrusts his brawny thighes. Sawney's a laird, he cries, I trow! Ne'er did he nobley sh-t till now.
Mounted to 30 x 34 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 8.5 x 9.7 cm, on sheet 19 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Ethnic stereotypes
Caricatures
Privies
Urination
Subjects: Ethnic stereotypes
Caricatures
Privies
Urination
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

Access: Public
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