English tourists watch Scottish fishermen opening pearl oysters on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Doctor Prosody fishing for pearls in the Isle of Sky. 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.

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