Iohny Mac-Cree in the dumps!! [graphic] / I. Ck.

[London] : Published April 12 - 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London, [12 April 1805]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 25 x 36 cm, on sheet 25.2 x 37 cm

laid paper

Title etched below image.

"Two elderly Scots discuss the Melville case; one, wearing old-fashioned court dress with a sword, takes snuff from the other's ram's-horn mull; he says: "Touch the Sillar!!! - T'is a on disgrace on aw Scotland!" They have sly, twisted expressions. Melville (left), weeping, clutches the back of the speaker's coat. He wears Highland dress, and says: "What my ain Countrymen turn their backs on me! then tis aw up with Johny Mac-cree [see British Museum Satires No. 10378]". On the right, Pitt runs off furtively to the right, saying, "I must cut out this Connexion - & leave him to his fate"."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

February 27, 2024

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10385