Portrait of the Edinburgh town crier, in profile to the right holding a bell up to the head of an imbecilic young man
Description:
Title and imprint from volume., Numbered '14' above the plate mark., and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
A tall very thin Hugo Arnot is depicted handing a coin to a beggar who stands near the corner of a building
Description:
Title from item., Place and date of imprint from that of book., Probably from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., and Printmaker and title from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6692.
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 (1837)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: James Hume Riggs of Morton -- Isaac Grant of Hilton -- Archibald Macarthur Stewart of Ascop -- Lt. Gen. Hon. John Leslie -- Capt. Wemyss, later Maj. Gen.
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 (1837 ed)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Clergy -- Jerome William Knapp.
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 (1837)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Orlando Hart -- William Jamieson -- Archibald M'Dowall -- Edinburgh: High Street -- Pavements.
Depicts half length from left to right, Lord Kames, Hugo Arnot and Lord Monboddo, each wearing a hat and carrying walking stick
Description:
Title assigned 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 (1837 ed.)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782, Arnot, Hugo, 1749-1786, and Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714-1799
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 (1837)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fraser, Andrew, -1795,, Erskine, Andrew, -1793,, and Whitefoord, John, -1803,
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 (1837 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: MacKay, Alexander -- Parasols.
Portrait of John Campbell, precentor of Cannongate, facing right and holding a book
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Title, printmaker, and imprint from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837).
Standing from left to right, John Wemyss the town crier with his bell, Robert Clerk, bookseller, and George Pratt, also Edinburgh town crier in 1784
Description:
Title and imprint from that of book. and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.