A satire on the Scots; an imitation but not a copy of the satire with the same title, BMSat 2678, c. 1745, repeated in 1762, see BMSat 3988, which according to Angelo was by George Bickham. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board. He grasps in his left hand a rolled document inscribed "Act for [esta]blishing Popery". Behind him a stone wall is indicated on which is etched (left) a thistle growing out of a reversed crown, inscribed "Nemo me impune lacessit". On the right. and over Sawney's head is engraved:
<p><br><br>"'Tis a bra' bonny seat, o' my saul, Sawney cries,
<br>I never beheld sic before with me Eyes,
<br>Such a place in aw' Scotland I never could meet,
<br>For the High and the Low ease themselves in the Street." 4 June 1779
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<br>Etching
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<p>Attributed to: James Gillray
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<dl><dd>Published by: Mrs Holt</dd></dl></div>
1779<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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