The craft in danger an uproar among the craftsmen at Ephesus, opposing a new species of knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver. 23 &c. / [graphic]Kay, John, 1742-1826[not before 1817]engDr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed; represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the university of Edinburgh"Caricature of a man (Dr Barclay) riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text at top of image; remainder of title from text below image.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and torn with some loss from upper left, and printmaker's signature either lightly printed or possibly erased from sheet.Possibly a plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838, v. 2. no. 152.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: College of Edinburgh -- Royal College of Surgeons.