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The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 2
Faed, John, 1853, Engraving
The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 2
The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 2
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24759
Title
The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 2
Description
A man travels on horseback through a rural landscape. He rides on one horse and another horse walks closely beside him. The man journeys past a stream and a wooden fence, through trees towards a cottage just visible over the brow of a hill. The sun fades on the horizon between a row of trees.
Artist / maker
Faed, John
Date
1853
Size
17.4 x 25.1 cm
Type
Engraving
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
A cottar, or cotter, is an old scots word meaning a married farm labourer who lives in a cottage provided by his employer. This image illustrates verse 2 from Robert Burns' The Cotter's Saturday Night:
November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh;
The short'ning winter-day is near a close;
The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh;
The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose:
The toil-worn Cottar frae his labour goes,
This night his weekly moil is at an end,
Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes,
Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,
And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend.
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The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns
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