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The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 3
Faed, John, 1853, Engraving
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Title
The Cottar's Saturday Night, verse 3
Description
A farming family sit beside the fireside in a cottage kitchen. The mother sits closest to the cooking range whilst the father talks to two children. One child sits on his knee and the other stands beside him as he holds her around the waist. A dog lies on the ground behind the man's chair. The room is furnished with basic functional furniture and utensils apart from a decorative clock which hangs on the wall.
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Faed, John
Date
1853
Size
17.9 x 25.3 cm
Type
Engraving
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
A cottar, or cotter, is an old scots word meaning a married farm labourer who lives in a cottage provided by his employer. This image illustrates verse 3 from Robert Burns' The Cotter's Saturday Night:
At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through
To meet thier Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.
His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily,
His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile,
The lisping infant prattling on his knee,
Does a' his weary carking cares beguile,
An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil.
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