Canty Muckle

Category

Library Item

Item no

11298

Title

Canty Muckle

Description

The poet, Donald Campbell has written a poem inspired by this character by Holt:

Canty Muckle

From Soho to the White Hart Inn
Canty Muckle knows the way.
Whatever difficulty he's in
He'll win through, come what may;
With reins in hand, he understands
There must be no delay
and, without fail, the Royal Mail
will arrive this Saturday.

Artist / maker

Holt, Edward P.

Date

1871

Size

22.5 x 15.5 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 image is taken from a bound volume which 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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