John Home, M.D., physician at Edinburgh, walking on a terrace toward the right
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Title supplied by cataloger., Temporary local subject terms: John Home -- Doctors -- Terraces., and Mis-identified in pencil mss. note as John Home or Hume, elder [bro?] David H.?
"A satire on high-waisted dresses. A lady (left) stands holding an infant in a long robe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8897). She wears a round hat of masculine shape trimmed with three small feathers. Her dress hangs in straight folds from a line across, or above, her breast; behind appears the end of a train. Beside her stands a lady in back view: a transparent curtain veil hangs from her small hat. Her dress and a loose train held over the right arm hang from the shoulders. A stone wall forms a dark background to the light figures. See British Museum Satires No. 8896, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
"Portrait of an exceedingly tall man wearing a striped waistcoat and tailcoat, resting his right elbow on an open door while a tailor stands on a chair on the right, measuring his other arm."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Giantism -- O'Brien, Patrick.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons), Human curiosities, and Tailoring
Title assigned by cataloger based on unverified data on local catalog card., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii, no. 145., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Soldier.
Dr 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 and "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 catalogue
Alternative Title:
Uproar among the craftsmen at Ephesus, opposing a new species of knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade
Description:
Title 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., and Printed description mounted with print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Barclay, John, 1758-1826, Gregory, James, 1753-1821, Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844, Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859, Jamieson, Robert, 1774-1854, Johnson, Robert, 1765-, Barclay, John, 1758-1826., Gregory, James, 1753-1821., Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844., Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859., and University of Edinburgh.
"George Smith (left) stands in profile to the right holding his hat, gazing fixedly at Deacon Brodie (right), who stands almost full-face looking to the front. Smith's clothes are out at elbows. Brodie is well dressed, wearing a cocked hat, a seal hangs from his fob, he holds a tasselled cane. Beside him are (left) a spurred game-cock and a dog, whose fierce-looking head appears on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Print numbered '106' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Brodie, William, 1741-1788, and Smith, George, -1788,
A design in five compartments, each occupied by a figure in profile to the right. Above each is an inscription. On the extreme left is a parson preaching from a pulpit; the head of the precentor appears in his desk beneath. Inscribed: 'I pray for all'. Next an advocate in his gown, his right hand raised: 'I plead for all'. Next a corpulent well-dressed man, holding up a sickle in his right hand: 'I maintain all'. Next is a still more corpulent military officer with a drawn sword: 'I fight for all'. Next is the Devil (no wings in this early state), prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.
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Title etched below image., The characters are: Dr. Andrew Hunter of the Tron Church, with John Campbell (unrecognizable), the precentor, see BMSat 5894, below him; Henry Erskine, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates 1785-96; James Rocheid of Inverleith, a distinguished agriculturist and absurdly self-important laird; Quartermaster Taylor, one of the defenders of Gibraltar., No. 56 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
The agitated George III, a trowel in his hand, watches Charles Fox, as a fox, with the "liberty" ribbon draped accross his back, leap over the "vanity pit" (William Pitt) in pursuit of a pack of hounds. In Fox's mouth is the judge's cloak that he pulled off the bewigged and snarling hound (Lord Thurlow). A column inscribed, "to Eastern tyranny," topples down upsetting the male figure of Injustice who holds a sword and a pair of scales. The fox urinates on one of the lanterns that symbolize conspiracy. Behind it, Boreas (Lord North) succeeds in blowing down the "Temple of secret influence" (Lord Temple).
Alternative Title:
Fox chacing the hounds
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Place of publication based on the area of printmaker's activity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813., and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Shovels, Foxes, Dogs, and Lanterns
Portrait of three Edinburgh characters: James Robertson, the "daft highland laird", John Dhu or Dow, and Baillie Duff, shown half length
Alternative Title:
Three Edinburgh bucks
Description:
Title etched above image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., and Restrike of No. 6689 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Robertson, James, d. 1790, Dow, John, and Duff, Jamie, -1788