The Scotch Ostrich Seeking Cover
Artist and publisher Thomas Rowlandson British
Subject Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville British, Scottish
Not on view
Melville, in Highland dress puts his head and shoulders through a hole in a brick wall. He says: "Ah! Ah! - Nae one sees - me now." The wall is inscribed "Parliamentary Recess." At left, two Irish men, one with a blunderbuss, watch him. One of them says to his friend: "Be azy - Brother pat - I see him as plain as ever I have plenty of ammunition left but I shant fire just at present."
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