A carriage in Scotland has broken sending the occupants flying in all directions. Etching after J. Gillray, 1805.

  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1810-1819
Reference:
37235i
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"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, saying to the unfortunate traveller: 'Hald your haund mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun! e'n gin you na mind yoursel, youl just make the muckle laird coupeing his creels!'. The chaise was drawn by a horse and ass; on the latter, which kicks violently, sits a primitive postilion; the traces are of rope. A shepherd (the muckle laird) reclines in the elbow of the road in the foreground; his dog barks at the chaise, which is followed by a man on a donkey. Horned sheep with tattered fleeces and bare rumps are beside the shepherd (r.). All four Scots are bare-footed, and have bare posteriors, the kilt being a mere apron."--British Museum, loc. cit.

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London (38 Burlington Arcade) : J. Sidebotham

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1 print : etching ; image 22.6 x 33.5 cm

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Posting in Scotland. ...

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 10479 (print by Gillray, 1805, from whch the present print is copied)

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Wellcome Collection 37235i

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