Sawney in the bog-house [graphic]

Description

Title: Sawney in the bog-house [graphic]
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name
Published / Created: [1745]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: To be had [...]
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 other copies of this image.
Attribution to Hogarth spurious. See The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Steevens collection of Hogarth's plates, p. 231.
Imprint and price mostly burnished from plate.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title on the Lewis Walpole Library impression.
"[Price] 3d."--Lower right corner.
Mounted to 23 x 17 cm.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10 x 7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Etchings England London 1745
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

Access: Public
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