The Scotch Ostrich Seeking Cover
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville|Thomas Rowlandson
July 8, 1805 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
Melville, in Highland dress puts his head and shoulders through a hole in a brick wall. He says: "Ah! Ah! - Nae one sees - me now." The wall is inscribed "Parliamentary Recess." At left, two Irish men, one with a blunderbuss, watch him. One of them says to his friend: "Be azy - Brother pat - I see him as plain as ever I have plenty of ammunition left but I shant fire just at present."
- Artist
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville|Thomas Rowlandson
- Date
- July 8, 1805
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959