Title from item., Numbered '323' on lower right corner., and Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii, no. 323.
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Military uniforms: Scottish uniforms -- Military camps.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hopetoun, James Hope Johnstone, Earl of, 1741-1816
Full length portrait of Marquis of Graham on left standing back to back with the Earl of Buchan. Both wear Highland dress
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Printmaker and title from book., Numbered in upper right of plate: 116., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836. and Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
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 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 Kay's A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842). and Temporary local subject terms: William Butter, Esq. -- John Morrison.