print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1867,0511.78
- Title
- Object: Irish bog trotters.
- Description
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Three burlesqued and bare-legged peasants run (left to right) splashing through a bog. The leader is a man carrying on his pitchfork his (patched) breeches and a pair of 'Brouges' or clumsy shoes. He holds a large jug of 'Butter Milk' and under his arm is a shillelagh inscribed 'Sprig of Shillelah'. A woman follows, holding the end of his shirt, with a basket of 'Potatoes' [some falling out] on her head. Her petticoat is kilted up, and the third, a woman, clutches at the end of her shift, to extricate herself from the bog. All three smoke short pipes. The man wears a small wig on unkempt hair which projects through his hat. In the middle distance (left) a woman has fallen, spilling the contents of a large basket of 'Turf', strapped to her back. In the background (right) huntsmen are galloping from rising ground (right) into the bog, in which dogs and horses are partly submerged; geese fly up. On the left is a thatched cabin, and there is a mountainous skyline. In the foreground is a strip of water with three huge frogs.
Plate numbered 163.
c.1812
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1812
- Dimensions
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Height: 347 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 250 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Many Irish peasants wore wigs, often too small and bright yellow, over fine crops of dark hair. C. Maxwell, 'Country and Town in Ireland under the Georges', 1940, p. 134.
(Supplementary information)
The date erased.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1993 May-Jun, Southampton City AG, Europeans in Caricature
1993 Jul-Sep, Bolton Museum & AG, Europeans in Caricature
1993 Oct-Nov, Newton Powys, Oriel 31, Europeans in Caricature
1994 Feb-Mar, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Europeans in Caricature
1994 May-Jul, Eastbourne, Towner AG, Europeans in Caricature
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0511.78
