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Jackson - street reciter
Holt, Edward P., 1871, Watercolour
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Title
Jackson - Edinburgh street reciter
Description
A balding man raises his arms in the air and looks to the sky. One leg is barefoot and the other is wooden from the knee down. He is wearing a tailcoat and waistcoat and his trousers are ragged at the ankle.
The poet, Donald Campbell has written a poem inspired by this character by Holt:
Jackson the Reciter
Jackson never plays a part;
his greatest joy is to declaim.
Reciting is his only art.
and never has he played a part.
The words he speaks come from the heart.
Let others look for wealth and fame
Jackson has never played a part
in any play you care to name.
Artist / maker
Holt, Edward P.
Date
1871
Size
24 x 15.2 cm
Type
Watercolour
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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The colourful world of Ned Holt
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