Samuel McPherson, Scottish soldier Size:L: 90 x 60cm 'Maids any Cunny Skins'

'Maids any Cunny Skins'

Cover of a song sheet with a view of broom sellers outside the premises of Mori & Leverne at 28 New Bond Street

showing a woman fanning herself with one hand and holding a bunch of roses in the crook of her other arm

In the foreground it appears that an execution might have taken place

passengers and boatmen in the foreground

Samuel McPherson, Scottish soldier Size:L: 90 x 60cm 'Maids any Cunny Skins'Samuel McPherson, Scottish soldier, 1743. 'Samuel McPherson, corporal, in his highland ridgmentals [sic], the most active in the desersion [sic]. The posture in presenting his firelock at Capt Ball in Lady Wood, and was shot at the Tower, July 18 1743'. McPherson was a soldier in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). Having been ordered to London, some of the regimant's soldiers deserted after hearing a rumour that they were to be shipped out to