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Rory Murphy - street comedien [comedian]
Holt, Edward P., 1871, Watercolour
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Rory Murphy - street comedien [comedian]
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Title
Rory Murphy - street comedien [comedian]
Description
A man in colourful costume waves a stick in the air as he dances in the street.
The poet, Donald Campbell has written a poem inspired by this character by Holt:
Rory Murphy
Everyone enjoys a laugh
but getting one is often tough
Rory's irked by the riff-raff
who tell him that his patter's duff.
He'd love to play the penny gaff
but Connor* doesn't like his stuff
and tells him he's not good enough.
Everyone enjoys a laugh
but on the street it's really tough.
*Connor was the proprietor of the penny gaff near High School Yards, where Ned Holt often acted.
Artist / maker
Holt, Edward P.
Date
1871
Size
19.3 x 10.5 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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