Poor Sawney in sweetbriars,1797,Scots,peddler of sewing wares,emaciated,Scotland
Title: Poor Sawney in sweetbriars / Rd. Newton del et fecit.
Creator(s): Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, artist
Date Created/Published: London : Pubd. by W. Holland, 1797 May.
Summary: Illustration shows two grotesquely caricatured Scots passing on the road, one, a peddler of sewing wares, says to the other who is somewhat emaciated, 'What the deel is the matter with you Sawney?' to which he responds, 'Deel a my Saul an I can tell, but all the Fat o' my Body has been running thro' my Pentle the last fortnight!!'
Notes:
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Scots--1790-1800.
Peddlers--Scotland--1790-1800.
Weight loss--Scotland--1790-1800.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1790-1800.
Etchings--1790-1800.
Ethnic stereotypes--1790-1800.
Bookmark /00650410/
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