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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/1/93/40 |
| Former Reference | D5459/1/144 |
| Title | A Scotch Jig : to an old tune - New Reviv'd !! ; Being the first thing of its kind since the days of Queen Elizabeth |
| Date | [1800-1809] |
| Description | On the left Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville dances, while a seated man with a mottled complexion on the right, probably meant to be John Bull, plays the fiddle.
In the pocket of the fiddle player is a paper on which is written: 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts', a play by Philip Massinger (1584-1639). The fiddle player sings 'Over the Water to Charley', a traditional Jacobite song. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | "My Good Lord Keeper led the brawls | The mace and seal they danced before him. vid. Gray"
The lines of verse are taken from Thomas Gray's 'Long Story' of 1775. Brawls refers to a type of dance and in the original 'good' is 'grave'. The Lord-Keeper referred to in the poem is Sir Christopher Hatton, who was recorded as having danced on several occasions. The drawing may refer to the financial irregularities of which Dundas was accused of in the 10th Naval Enquiry of 1805. |
| Physical Description | Pencil drawing with text in ink. Size 367 x 330 mm. |
| Related Material | See D5459/1/93/4 for more on the Naval Enquiry.
See D5458/1/93/1 for more depictions of Dundas. |
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