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.
Collection of mostly English engraved trade cards for a wide variety of London businesses, especially those advertising goods and services relating to household furnishings, men and women's attire and accessories such as gloves, boots, and swords, mercers and haberdashery being the most numerous. In addition there are cards for: cabinet makers, engravers and jewelers, clockmakers, tea shops, grocers, wine suppliers, exotic oil suppliers, apothecaries, hair styling, an auctioneer, and an undertaker. Also included are several invitations to private events such as a birthday party and a lodge meeting. Also included is one advertisement for an Edinburgh pewter shop and one for a French supplier of maps
View of the Scotch and French camp in Scotland, 1746
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and left., Temporary local subject terms: Military camps: Scotch and French -- Scottish military uniforms -- French military uniforms -- Drilling soldiers -- Guns: muskets -- Cannons -- Military tents -- Kitchen utensils: skillet -- Spit -- Cooking pots -- Wine bottles and glasses -- Gambling: cards -- Flags -- Children: boys -- Babies -- Dogs -- Horses -- Furniture: bassinet -- Music: Scottish bagpipes., A line of text, probably printmaker's name, in lower right below image erased from this impression., and Mounted to 33 x 53 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 and Historical reenactments
Three-quarter length portrait of Maria Constantia, wife of Henry Howard, the 12th Earl of Suffolk, at the age of 23, the year before her death
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Maria Constantia
Description:
Lettered below the image, on a second plate, with the title, a crest bearing the motto 'Nous Maintien Drons', and "C. Read Pinxt. / J. Watson fecit / AD: 1766 AE: 23"., A coat of arms appears in the center in the caption area with motto: "Nous maintiendrons.", Watermark: illegible watermark (3 lines) towards bottom of sheet., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Maria Constantia, Countess of, b. 1743 or 44-1767
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.
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
"Graham, the well-known quack, stands above and behind a crowd of listeners, all men, some in profile, some in back view, some full-face, the heads and shoulders only being visible, except in the foreground where there is a row of half length figures seated apparently on a bench. The expressions of the audience vary, some look up at the lecturer, others turn their backs, many are grinning. Graham holds a rolled document in one hand as in British Museum Satires No. 6324, &c. The room is lit by a small pendant chandelier with four candles, and by single candles in sconces round the walls."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dr. James Graham lecturing in Edinburgh
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with year "1785" added in lower right (digit "7" etched backwards). For earlier state lacking year, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.13.7., Possibly a nineteenth-century reissue; cf. A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838, v. 1. no. 12., and Annotation in pencil on verso: Dr. Jas. Graham lecturing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Public speaking, Audiences, Chandeliers, and Sconces
Title from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue, v.5, p. 59. and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
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 from item., Numbered '303' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Mrs. Penelope Macdonald of Clanronald -- Captain Dalrymple, Hon. Elphinstone.
Title and printmaker from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7203 and Temporary local subject terms: Captain Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone -- Miss Penelope MacDonald -- Costume: Ladies' hat.
John Home, M.D., physician at Edinburgh, walking on a terrace toward the right
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Temporary local subject terms: John Home -- Doctors -- Terraces., and Mis-identified in pencil mss. note as John Home or Hume, elder [bro?] David H.?
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.
"Four oval bust portraits arranged in two pairs on a shaded background. Above (left) is Eiston, a young man in profile on the right wearing a cocked hat, a leading macaroni among students at Edinburgh University, afterwards an army surgeon. Facing him is Hieronyno Stabilini, a violinist, d. Edinburgh 1815, aged 54. Below, the Laird of McNab faces Captain McKenzie of Redcastle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number '120' on lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Eiston -- Captain M'Kenzie -- Dr. Stablilius -- Francis McNab.
"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.
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Bailie James Dickson -- Bailie James Torry., Later impression without the '49' in lower right corner., and 1 print ; sheet 27.3 x 21.3 cm.
Title from British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of engraved British Portraits, v.5, p. 59, Numbered '167' in upper right corner., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
The figures are identified as John Campbell and Alexander Campell, with the Edinburgh character Baillie Duff, a blind Irish piper, Meek, and a fish-horn blower. This print was produced in response to Alexander Campbell's publication of a print that satirized John Kay, "A Medley of Musicians"; cf. British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Let puppy's bark and asses bray, each dog and cur will have his day
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Campbell, John, -1795. and Campbell, Alexander, 1764-1824.
Title from item., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii, no. 225., Numbered '225' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: William Cumming.
"Portrait; half-length in profile to left, holding a scroll in his left hand; wearing a dark coat, jaw-length white wig and tricorn; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Title supplied by cataloger., In lower right corner, numbered '86'., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Printmaker and title from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7204, Plate worn. Possibly a printing for the 1837 or 1842 collections of Kay's work., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone -- Miss Penelope MacDonald -- Costume: Ladies' hat -- Window.
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 (no wings in this early state), prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.
Description:
Title etched below image., 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., No. 56 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
Title assigned by cataloger based on unverified data on local catalog card., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii, no. 145., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Soldier.
"Two men face each other in profile; between and behind them is the stout, dishevelled back view of Roger Hog, see BMSat 6847. On the left the very corpulent body of William Macpherson, W.S., has the head ot the emaciated Hugo Arnot, whose thin body (right) has the thick-necked head of Macpherson. All wear hats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Numbered '66' in 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. i.
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Silhouettes.
Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Plate mark not visible., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Beards -- Books -- Andrew Donaldson.
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.
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877), v. ii, no. 213., Numbered in lower right of plate: 213., and Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- Shoe laces -- Braying asses -- Fops -- Braidwood, Francis.
"Portrait; full-length walking to right in a street past the corner of a building, left hand swung forward, wearing a dark suit, queue wig and tricorn."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Alexander Monro secundus and Dr. Munro, Senr
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomy.
Title from item. and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to river Nile -- Reference to Edinburgh -- Travellers -- Tavern-keepers -- Authors -- Booksellers -- Reference to Cherokee Indians.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs
Subject (Name):
Bruce, James, 1730-1794 and Williamson, Peter, 1730-1799
An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet., Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes., Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112., and Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation