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The Scotch Triumvirate (BM 1868,0808.3928)

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The Scotch Triumvirate (BM 1868,0808.3928)

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Anti-Scottish satire: a scaffold with three Scotsmen, William Henry Cranstoun, James Lowry and Major James MacDonald, each with a rope around his neck; Cranstoun addresses his lover Mary Blandy in her shroud while her murdered father, also in a shroud, stands behind him; at Cranstoun's feet his victim, Kenrich Hossack, rises in a shroud from a hole in the platform; Macdonald holds a paper lettered "S Sea Annuities Dam my School Master" and claims, in a speech balloom, "I have Escap'd Hanging I own I'm a Highland Villian [sic]"; to left a sheet advertising, "Scotch Powder to cure the Itch" and a mock coat-of-arms supported by an ass's head and a peacock both dressed in plaid, and with the motto, "Imputdent, Rebellious/Lazy, and Proud".
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1752
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