Cutty-sark (witch) "chemise", or "shirt". The earliest recorded literary usage of the term "cutty sark" (as opposed to older usage of the two separate words) is by Dougal Graham in c. 1779 (the year of his death): "A cutty sark of guide harn sheet, My mitter he pe spin, mattam." In Burns' 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter, the drunken Tam, riding home on his horse, happens upon a witches' dance. Among the dancing figures is a particularly beautiful young witch named Nannie (Scots pet-form of Anna), "ae winsome wench and wawlie" (line 164). She is wearing a "harn" (linen) "sark" (nightshirt) which
Carl Georg August Wallin Shipping Company "Nordstjernan AB" ordered some 30 paintings by Wallin. Carl Wallin painted some 700 ship paintings, most of them named with the names of the ships, usually full-rigged ship, but he has also painted marine compositions and coastal landscapes. Many of the great shipping companies of that time commissioned paintings of their ships by Carl Wallin. But even foreign shipping companies, seafarers associations and federations as well as private buyers commissioned paintings. Carl Wallin’s drawing of the "Cutty Sark" (the tea clipper built in Scotland), which since 1955, is the label on the whiskey bottles of Cutty Sark whisky,