Cripple Kirsty

Category

Library Item

Item no

11326

Title

Cripple Kirsty

Description

An illustration of a coach and horses decorates this poem entitled, 'Cripple Kirsty'. The poem begins:
'Wha amoung us has na heard
O weel-kent Cripple Kirsty?
A porter met her on the street
An' speert gin she was thirsty.'

Artist / maker

Holt, Edward P.

Date

1871

Size

18 x 7 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edward Holt was an Edinburgh caricaturist and figure painter working in the second half of the nineteenth century. This bound volume contains a large proportion of his surviving work.
There is a little uncertainty over Edward Holt's name. He is sometimes referred to as Edmund and was more commonly known as Ned.

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