From Burns’ cantata of society’s outcasts, the beggars dance and sing in the tavern, hardship set aside for a night. One of the Jolly Beggars illustrations from Bruce’s Glenfarclas 40 Year Old whisky commission; read the full story in the journal.
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They Danced and They Sang
The Jolly Beggars · Illustration
The beggars dancing, one of them up on a chair, with the neck of a fiddle laid across the foot of the page. Inscribed in the artist's hand: they ranted and they sang.
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