The highland laddie [graphic].

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Title: The highland laddie [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: "A man in Scottish dress, with a voluminous cloak, embracing a young woman in a striped dress who sits on the right, with bushes behind and the edge of a cottage in the background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Verse "from the favourite song, The Highland Laddie" in two columns below title: A painted room and silken bed, May please a lawland laird and lady; But I can kiss and be as glad, Behind a bush in's Highland Pladdie.
Numbered "490" in lower left corner.
No. 2 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.0 x 25.0 cm, on 38.4 x 27.2 cm
Language: English

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