Skip to content
Home
Favourites
0
Advanced search
Shopping cart
0
Register
Log in
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
Subject = "Hats"
Back to search results
Hugh MacPherson, sometime clerk to the Perth Carriers
Kay, John, 1810, Etching
Item
of 1,003
Hugh MacPherson, sometime clerk to the Perth Carriers
Hugh MacPherson, sometime clerk to the Perth Carriers
Add to favourites
Share
Item record
About this image
Related
Location
Category
Library Item
Item no
13349
Title
Hugh MacPherson, sometime clerk to the Perth Carriers
Description
A portrait of a very small man who lived in Edinburgh. He is wearing a suit with a waistcoat and necktie. He wears a tall hat and carries a walking stick.
Artist / maker
Kay, John
Date
1810
Size
12 x 7.4 cm
Type
Etching
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows:
"Hugh MacPherson, or 'Wee Hughie', as he was commonly termed, was born in the district of Badenoch about the year 1770. His father, who lived to a great age, was shepherd on an extensive farm in that quarter; and both his parents were persons of ordinary stature.[...]
Hughie was, in his own estimation, a perfect dandy. Every new suit, to make sure of being fashionably fitted, cost him a visit to Edinburgh. At length, that he might take charge of his employers' establishment there, he had the peculiar satisfaction of being removed permanently to the capital.
Hugh was a well-known character, the oddness of his figure, and his excessive self-conceit, making him the subject of much diversion. While in Perth, some one having drawn a caricature of him, he at once sought reparation by challenging the offender to a duel; but this display of spirit only served to make matters worse, for, in another picture, the little mountaineer was grotesquely exhibited brandishing a pair of pistols not much shorter than himself."
Exhibitions with this item
The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
Communities
Doctors and dandies, preachers and beggars
Other views of this item
Related images
Related subjects
Clothing and dress
>
Accessories
>
Hats
Clothing and dress
>
Accessories
>
Walking sticks
Clothing and dress
>
Garments
>
Waistcoats
People
>
Adults
>
Men
Places
>
Scotland
>
Edinburgh
More like this
Rights and purchasing
Option
Price
Digital File
Electronic file 72 dpi JPEG
£6.10
(inc. VAT 20%)
Add
Digital File
Electronic File 300 dpi TIFF
£31.00
(inc. VAT 20%)
Add
You can view and use digital images for personal and educational use. For more information, read our
policy on image use
.
If you wish to use our images for commercial use, please
contact us
.