“Two elderly Scots discuss the Melville case; one, wearing old-fashioned court dress with a sword, takes snuff from the other’s ram’s-horn mull; he says: “Touch the Sillar!!! – T’is a on disgrace on aw Scotland!” They have sly, twisted expressions. Melville (left), weeping, clutches the back of the speaker’s coat. He wears Highland dress, and says: “What my ain Countrymen turn their backs on me! then tis aw up with Johny Mac-cree [see British Museum Satires No. 10378]”. On the right, Pitt runs off furtively to the right, saying, “I must cut out this Connexion – & leave him to his fate”.”–British Museum online catalogue.

• Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
  
• Title: Iohny Mac-Cree in the dumps!! [graphic] / I. Ck.
  
• Publication: [London] : Published April 12 – 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London, [12 April 1805]

Catalog Record

805.04.12.02+

Acquired February 2024