Framed engraving of 'The Jolly Beggars', by S. Warren after Sir William Allan
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Black and white engraving of 'The Jolly Beggars'. S. Warren after Sir William Allan, 1823. Engraving depicts the beggars sitting at a table surrounded by a large crowd of people beside a fire in a cottage.
The characters in this work originally known as 'Love and Liberty,' depicts a group of vagabonds who roamed the countryside thieving and pilfering. A work considered often difficult to perform, in recent times been set to music by Cedric Thorpe Davie and performed throughout Scotland.
All the main characters who give a party piece (or performance) in the cantata are depicted here: the ‘Sodger’ (soldier), the ‘raucle Carlin’ (buxom lady), the ‘pigmy Scraper’ (fiddler) and the bard.
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