Convention of asses, or, Spirit of democracy [graphic]Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker[1792][printed not before 1877]engTitle from item.Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book; the 1842 edition was issued without numbers on plates and on smaller size sheets.Reprint from 1877 of no. 8151 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877).Numbered '20' above the plate.Temporary local subject terms: Asses -- Meetings -- Barns -- Signs: tavern signboards -- Fences -- Scottish constitutional opposition -- Conventions: delegates from the Societies of the Friends of the People throughout Scotland, Dec. 11, 1792 -- Literature: Allusion to William Wilkie's (f. 1792) The Rights of Asses.