The new laird mayor & his bonny laddies, or, Gog & Magog metamorphosis'd

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Charles Jameson Grant
active 1830-1852
The new laird mayor & his bonny laddies, or, Gog & Magog metamorphosis'd
lithograph
image: 374 x 248 mm; sheet: 398 x 273 mm
Peel 2193
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title from caption.
Signature, lower left: C.J. Grant
Printed below title: Pub. by Tregear, 132, Cheapside, London, Nov. 1832.

Summary: 

Two giants in kilts dance. The one at left wears a crown and carries a smaller man on his shoulder. The one to the right wears laurel leaves under his tam and is playing a set of bagpipes with a ribbon reading "ITCH DIEN" fluttering from one of the pipes. Two smaller figures in kilts dance behind them; small inscription near their feet reads "Scotch aldermen". Above the piper another inscription reads, "Sir Peter's acoming Oh dear Oh dear! / Pur new Mayor's acoming Oh dear Oh dear! / He'll gi'us a Fiddle I verily fear -- / Here's Sawney acoming Oh dear Oh dear!!"

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