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1. Sawney in the bog-house [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.00.00.24
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Mounted to 30 x 34 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures, Privies, and Urination
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sawney in the bog-house [graphic].
2. The - quack [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [May 1763]
- Call Number:
- 762.05.00.19.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reduced copy, from "The mountebank" (British Museum catalogue no. 3854), with out the inscriptions on the papers. The charletan's speech ends with : .. See here my lads heres the Golden Lozenges which will cure ye all make ye hauld up yr. heads and turn out mucle southern loons. A crowd mostly wearing Scotch plaid assemble on a mountebank's stage, bowing to him. Behind a line of curtains suggest a bed and a box of treasure on the floor. Lord Bute is the charlatan and stands holding money bags in each hand. A middle aged woman in a Welsh hat (the Princess of Wales) looks from between the curtains and listens with pleasure to the charlatan. The zany of the quack is a gaunt man in a Scotch plaid dressing gown and a tall fool's cap and holding a copy of "The Briton" under his arm and a horn in his girdle
- Alternative Title:
- Scotch quack
- Description:
- Title etched below image; expanded title from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '20' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. 5th ed. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
- Subject (Topic):
- Crowds, Ethnic stereotypes, Hats, National emblems, Scottish, Welsh, Quacks, and Swindlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The - quack [graphic].
3. The - quack [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [May 1763]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reduced copy, from "The mountebank" (British Museum catalogue no. 3854), with out the inscriptions on the papers. The charletan's speech ends with : .. See here my lads heres the Golden Lozenges which will cure ye all make ye hauld up yr. heads and turn out mucle southern loons. A crowd mostly wearing Scotch plaid assemble on a mountebank's stage, bowing to him. Behind a line of curtains suggest a bed and a box of treasure on the floor. Lord Bute is the charlatan and stands holding money bags in each hand. A middle aged woman in a Welsh hat (the Princess of Wales) looks from between the curtains and listens with pleasure to the charlatan. The zany of the quack is a gaunt man in a Scotch plaid dressing gown and a tall fool's cap and holding a copy of "The Briton" under his arm and a horn in his girdle
- Alternative Title:
- Scotch quack
- Description:
- Title from item., Title etched below image; expanded title from British Museum catalogue., Later state has the number '20' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. 5th ed. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and On page 296 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
- Subject (Topic):
- Crowds, Ethnic stereotypes, Hats, National emblems, Scottish, Welsh, Quacks, and Swindlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The - quack [graphic].
4. The evacuation, or, An emetic for Old England by a Scot [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.12.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Emetic for Old England
- Description:
- Title from caption etched above image., Reversed copy, with changes in title, of the etching illustrating No. 3917 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor stage: mountebank's stage -- Arms of the City of London -- Emblems: spear and cap of Liberty -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Personifications: France as an ape -- Shields: Britannia's shield with Scotch thistle and Cross of St. Andrew's -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Clyster pipe -- Dutchmen -- Spaniards.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Ethnic stereotypes, Medical equipment & supplies, National emblems, Quacks, and Vomiting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The evacuation, or, An emetic for Old England by a Scot [graphic]
