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1. The General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland [graphic]

Creator:: Allan, David, 1744-1796, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1783]
Call Number:: 783.00.00.04+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland [graphic]

2. [Wedding scene from Ramsay's The gentle shepherd, Act V] [graphic]

Creator:: Allan, David, 1744-1796, printmaker
Published / Created:: [ 1798]
Call Number:: 798.00.00.71
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Two lines of quotation below image: Sir William. I give you both my blessing; may your love ... Gent. shep. Act V scene [sic]., and Temporary local subject terms: Marriages -- Couples -- Cottages -- Image of Robert Bruce -- Image of Admiral Brighton -- Scotland -- Scottish tartan -- Parents -- Prayers.
Publisher:: Printed for G. Reid and Co.
Subject (Topic):: Weddings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Wedding scene from Ramsay's The gentle shepherd, Act V] [graphic]

3. Alexander Kidston. John Jardine [graphic].

Creator:: Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1841.
Call Number:: 841.00.00.36
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portraits of John Jardine and Alexander Kidston, both whole-lengths, walking in street, in hats and coats, Jardine with spectacles and umbrella, Kidston in chequered waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: John Jardine
Description:: Title from text etched below each figure in image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Questionable publisher from that of the volume in which this plate was published., Plate also published in: Crombie, B. Modern Athenians: being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, MDCCCLI [1851]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of left half of image. Description based on impression in the British Museum., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.3 x 20.3 cm., and Imperfect; left half of print showing Alexander Kidston has been trimmed away, leaving only the right half showing John Jardine.
Publisher:: Hugh Paton?
Subject (Name):: Jardine, John, 1777-1850 and Kidston, Alexander, 1762-1850
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Alexander Kidston. John Jardine [graphic].

4. Punch cures the gout, the colic, and the tisic [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1824 and 1827]
Call Number:: Print00299
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this is a copy
Description:: Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827]., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray published 13 July 1799 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 265., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Punch.
Publisher:: Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Drinking vessels, Eating & drinking, Floor coverings, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Living rooms, Medicine, Songs, and Singing
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Punch cures the gout, the colic, and the tisic [graphic]

5. Punch cures the gout, the colic, and the tisic [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1824 and 1827]
Call Number:: 818.00.00.27
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this is a copy
Description:: Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827]., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray published 13 July 1799 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 265., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Punch., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.6 x 31.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 23 x 32 cm.
Publisher:: Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Drinking vessels, Eating & drinking, Floor coverings, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Living rooms, Medicine, Songs, and Singing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Punch cures the gout, the colic, and the tisic [graphic]

6. John Gardner, pewterer, metal sash fan & sky light maker, Nether Bow Edinburgh. Makes & sells all kinds of pewter work, viz. ... [graphic]

Creator:: Fisher, J., active 1733, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1733 and 1769?]
Call Number:: Folio 66 733 Al325
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: Title from item., Title continues: Best hard metal tea pots & flats, cream pots, & sugar bowles, sacrament flaggons, cups & servers, porter cups, & sauce boats, tureen table & tea spoons; all the above of silver fashions, dishes & plates of hard & common metal, tureens & water plates, stake plates, tankards, & decanters, ice cream moulds, & freezers, basons, water pots, & bed pans, spit boxes, urinals, & feet warmers, injection pipes, & bide pans, syrringes, & surgeons measures, in haillers & worms for stills, ink chests, & stands, round & square, sugar, peper [sic], & mustard boxes, lemon strainers, & wine funels, candle moulds, short & long sizes, spirit & ale measures, all sizes, glass bottom tankards, jugs & salts. Also sells all kinds of copper and brass work, such as brewing & horse meat kettles, stills, coal buckets, & scupes, broath pots, goglits, & stew pans, sauce, skellet, & brass pans, brass & copper tea kettles, candlesticks, red or yellow metal, taper stands, table & house bells, brass cocks, pistols, & mortars, beams, scales, brass & lead weights, extinguishers, save alls & snuffers, japan'd mugs, painted or plain, leads & meals for damask weavers, church tokens, & farthing tickets, pumps & siphons for spirits. Money or goods for old pewter, copper, brass, and lead. Household furniture bought & sold by Mrs. Gardner auctioneer., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and On leaf 41 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Publisher:: John Gardner
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > John Gardner, pewterer, metal sash fan & sky light maker, Nether Bow Edinburgh. Makes & sells all kinds of pewter work, viz. ... [graphic]

7. The craft in danger an uproar among the craftsmen at Ephesus, opposing a new species of knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver. 23 &c. / [graphic]

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826
Published / Created:: [not before 1817]
Call Number:: Print00929
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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.
Subject (Topic):: Anatomy, Comparative, Elephants, and Skeleton
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The craft in danger an uproar among the craftsmen at Ephesus, opposing a new species of knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver. 23 &c. / [graphic]

8. A [letter] [to] Sir L------e Dund[as] [graphic]

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1877]
Call Number:: 762.00.00.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Letter to Sir Laurence Dundas
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker from an unverified card catalog record., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., An engraved letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "letter" by an envelope, "to" by a toe, "as" in Dundas by an ass., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2, Appendix, additional plate no. 357., and Temporary local subject terms: Devil.
Publisher:: Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):: Dundas, Lawrence, Sir, ca. 1710-1781
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A [letter] [to] Sir L------e Dund[as] [graphic]

9. A highland chieftain [graphic]

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1791] and [printed not before 1842]
Call Number:: 791.00.00.28
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from text below 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.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Highlanders -- Male costume: highlander chieftain.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Scotland
Subject (Name):: Gordon, George, Duke of, 1770-1836
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A highland chieftain [graphic]

10. A whim-or a visit to the Mud Bridge [graphic]

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: 1786.
Call Number:: 786.00.08.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An open carriage or landau, crowded with ladies, is drawn (left to right) by six men; a servant seated on the shoulders of the foremost acts as postilion. In front walks a man holding a quaigh or covered cup by one of its small legs; against his shoulder he holds a tartan flag. A man stands at the back of the carriage in the place of a footman, pointing with his left forefinger and saying, "Whip hard, Geordie". The driver, who holds reins attached to the noses of the wheelers, answers, "Dam it ['Get on' Kay] I'll not spare them Willie"; he flicks his whip over the heads of his team. The carriage is on a causeway of earth with a flat surface and rectangular side in which there is a culvert (left). Behind the carriage (left) is a board or a post: a hand points to 'Bs Bridge'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Visit to the Mud Bridge
Description:: Title engraved below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Boyd, George, active 1786., Duff, James, -1788., Hutton, Sibilla, active 1786-1808., and Yetts, William, 1796-1863.
Subject (Topic):: Carriages & coaches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A whim-or a visit to the Mud Bridge [graphic]