Title from text 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 (1842 ed.)., and Caption below image: The elder shall serve the younger. Rom. ix and 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Elder, Thomas, 1737-1799 and Baird, George Husband, 1761-1840
Parson Adams and Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fourth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 130., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Lawyers: country justice -- Domestic servants: cooks -- Furniture: tables -- Slipcovered chairs -- Smoking: pipes -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Drinking glasses -- Night watchmen -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
On the right, the representatives of George III gathered on a dais under an ornate canopy with the King's initials on it, preside over a session of the Assembly. In the foreground, the ministers of the Church of Scotland are engaged in discussion and reviewing of documents. The surrounding pews are occupied by petitioners and their attorneys while the general public views the proceedings from the galleries above
Alternative Title:
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder to the Queen
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland. and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Judicial proceedings, Courtrooms, and Clothing & dress
Title supplied by cataloger., 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 (1842)., Very faint impression of the word "fecit' below oval., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., 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 (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., 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 (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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, prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.
Description:
Title from item., Title etched below images., 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., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Later state of: No. 7416 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
Title from item., 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 (1877) v. i, no. 30., Numbered in lower right of plate: 30., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: Maces.
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842), v. i, pt 1, p. 67., See no. 7580 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, for earlier state., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: maces.