Portrait of Thomas Pellett; half length, to the left, looking to front; wearing cloak with tassles decorating bands across sleeves, wig, and neck scarf; in oval; after Dahl
Description:
Title from later, lettered states., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 208 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Proof. In pencil in Steeven's hand above row of three impressions of this portrait: Dr. Pellet. See Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st. 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Title, printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum., Date of publication from printmaker's known place of activity., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Portrait of Thomas Wood, standing whole-length directed slightly to right, his right hand tucked into his coat, left hand at his side, a bunch of flowers at left lapel, in an ordered garden with windmills in the background; after Ogborne; unlettered proof before margin cleared
Description:
Title, artist and publication information from Chaloner Smith. and Engraved from a painting by David Ogborne. Cf. Chaloner Smith.
Publisher:
Publish'd March the 1st 1774, by John Thane, printseller and medalist in Gerrard Street, Soho
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 and Laird Robertson, John Dow & James Duff commonly called Baillie Duff
Description:
Version without inscriptions or title., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., Title and pintmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title in British Museum catalogue: Laird Robertson, John Dow & James Duff commonly called Baillie Duff., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., 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, 1790-, Dow, John., and Duff, Jamie, -1788.
Charles Byrne and two other Irish giants stand surrounded by a group of spectators including Lord Monboddo, & William Richardson
Description:
Title and printmaker from volume., 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 ed.)., and Numbered '4' in lower right of plate.
Portrait of two traveling shoemakers, both wearing turbans, one on the left named Mahomet and his son Abraham, on the right. They visited Edinburgh in 1784
Description:
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 (1877)., and Numbered in upper left of plate: 169.
Portrait of two traveling shoemakers, both wearing turbans, one on the left named Mahomet and his son Abraham, on the right. They visited Edinburgh in 1784
Description:
Title and printmaker from book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Title from British Museum catalogue., One line of quote below image: In coelum jusseris ibit., One line of text below the quote: And bid him go to Hell, to Hell he goes., Frontispiece from: Baratariana. The second ed. Dublin, 1773., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Lord Frederick North -- Allusion to John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute -- Literature: quotation from Juvenal, Satires, iii, 78.
Full length portrait of an elderly and toothless John Wilkes, in hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt and riding boots
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Another state has the number 'XIV' in upper left corner., and Mounted on page 5 with three other prints.