Hugo Arnot, esq., advocate, and Gingerbread Jock

Category

Library Item

Item no

13451

Title

Hugo Arnot, esq., advocate, and Gingerbread Jock

Description

Hugo Arnot wearing a long coat, hat, sword and carrying a cane gives money to a beggar dressed in rags.

Artist / maker

Kay, John

Date

1784

Size

13 x 9 cm

Type

Etching

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows:
"The strange figure of Mr Arnot appears to have been a favourite with Kay, who has here ironically represented him in the act of relieving a beggar, the fact being that he had a nervous antipathy to medicants, and was at all times more disposed to cane them than to give them alms.
John Duncan, the beggar here represented, was a poor creature, who, after having long endevoured to support himself by the sale of gingerbread, sunk into medicancy, which he usually practiced at a corner of the Parliament Square."

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Clothing and dress > Accessories > Hats

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