£2,000
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky | 651
Auction: 18 August 2021 at 11:00 BST
oil on panel, depicting a 'primitive' Scotsman unable the use lavatory, with legs suspended down each bowl, based on a similar image depicting Sawney Bean the folklore cannibal
Note: After the defeat of the Jacobite rising in 1745, the British government introduced the ‘Heritable Jurisdiction’s Act of 1747’ which stated that any Jacobite's land would now be in control of the government.
Their main aim was to destroy the clan structure and obliterate any fundamentals of Scottish life such as the Gaelic language, tartan etc. This was further accomplished with the ‘Scottish Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge’, enforcing English and English culture and was the model used across the world in colonisation.
Propaganda such as this caricature depicted mainly Highland Scots as primitive and uncouth with financial incentives for those disseminating the material. Images such as this illustrated the vulgar highlander unable to perform basic functions as the lavatory