File:A taylor's board!!! (BM 1948,0214.884).jpg
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A taylor's board!!! |
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Description |
English: A board meeting, with (?) Sidebotham at the head of the table (left) facing a Scot in Highland dress, seated on a cask of 'Sulpher Bri'. Two tailors stand at the nearer side of the table in angry controversy, one in patched, the other in tattered dress. The latter says: "You have made a pretty botch of this Business. How do you like the measures I have taken Mr Tailor." Beside him are a 'Sleeve Board' and (tape) 'Measures'. The other, who is uncouth, with a 'Pattern Book' hanging from his pocket, answers: "I care not for the Measures, it is for the Goose & Board that Plague me most!! and one Taylor should not be too hard upon another!" On the table a pair of shears lies on a paper: 'Paving Act Sec 37—Inhabitants to Sweep Scrape & Wash the Gutters every day or pay 2/6 to be levied by Sale of Goods or 3 Months Imprisonment!!' Three men sit on the farther side of the table; one points behind him at the inscription 'a Goose', beside the tailor's goose which the Scot holds. The latter (? J. Ross, see below) says: "What signifies your swearing that you regularly Sweep your Door if ye dinna Scrape & Wash it also? The filthy Loons o this Town should go to my Country to learn Cleanliness. No excuse for dirty streets there!!! Thanks to the Bra' Scotts wi their long Cloaks & Buckets!!! As your Sleeve-Board, Shears, & Goose, are not likely to sell for as much as the Fines amount to you must be content to thread your Needles in the County Goal for 3 Months, according to our Act Sect 124 Where you will have opportunity enough to moralize on the effects of a Filthy Foot-Path & Gutter you dirty Dog!!!!!!!" Under his arm is a chanter: 'A substitute for a Scotch Bag-pipe, taken from a South Briton by a North-Briton for refusing to be his own Scavenger!!!'
Hand-coloured etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: S Brigley | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1820 date QS:P571,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1948,0214.884 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952) A satire on street-cleaning in Dublin with many personal allusions, notably to the rival printsellers, Sidebotham and McCleary, cf. Nos. 11412, 12054, &c. The Scot alludes to the primitive arrangements for sanitation in Edinburgh, cf. No. 8103, &c., while 'sulphur' is a cure for the itch or 'Scotch Fiddle', see No. 14396. One of the unswept frontages is that of the Board. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-884 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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