A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates / I.R.C. fecit.

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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856
A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates / I.R.C. fecit.
[London] : Pubd Feby 4th 1819 by SW Fores 50 Picca.dilly & 312 Oxford Street, [1819]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.493
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[London] : Pubd Feby 4th 1819 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street, [1819]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows a Gretna Green marriage in an open-fronted smithy. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'

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