English tourist in a bird basket in a gannet hunt

English tourist riding in a bird basket in a gannet or guga hunt on the isle of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Doctor Factobend's recantation in the bird basket, St. Kildd. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by William Read from William Combe's The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in search of the Antique and the Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, Matthew Illy, London, 1821

Antiquarian Antiquities Chisel Clears Deface Gannet Hebrides Iona Isles Orkney Parody Picaresque Prosody Shetland Vandalism

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