English tourists robbed by an innkeeper in the Scottish highlands. Doctor Prosody reproves the audacity of a highland host. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Charles Williams 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.

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