Sawney in the bog-house [graphic]

Description

Title: Sawney in the bog-house [graphic]
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, atrributed name
Published / Created: [1745]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
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 etched below image.
Spurious attribution?
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all sides but top.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Spurious.
Ms. note in pencil below print: A forgery by Darley.
On page 231 in volume 3.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 12.3 x 9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Etchings England London 1745
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Ethnic stereotypes
Caricatures
Privies
Urination
Subjects: Ethnic stereotypes
Caricatures
Privies
Urination
England > 1745
England > London > 1745
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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