Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., and Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805, and Grieve, Henry, 1736-1810
Title from item., 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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., and Numbered in lower right of plate: 211.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805, and Grieve, Henry, 1736-1810
"An elderly 'cit' sleeps in a low, upright chair, leaning back till his profile faces the ceiling. His hands are clasped over his chest, his wig dangles from his coat-collar, and he puffs from tightly shut lips. The room is bare with a boarded floor. On a round table are a jug and glass, and the sleeper's pipe lying on 'Cobbett's Political Register'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 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], opposite page 142., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray, published 1 November 1806 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 10644 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 343., and Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 561.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Sleep, Sleeping, Wigs, Pipes (Smoking), and Newspapers
Title from text above 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.)., and Caption below image: The elder shall serve the younger. Rom. ix and 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Elder, Thomas, 1737-1799 and Baird, George Husband, 1761-1840
Leaf 6v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man walks on the street, balancing a tray filled with human and animal figurines supported by his right hand and balanced on his head. In the background, two chimney sweeps, the first carrying a ladder, walk past the rotunda of the General Register House
Alternative Title:
Back view of Register Office
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
General Register House (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Figurines, and Chimney sweeps
Title from text in bottom left corner of 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 headings: Osbourne, Alexander -- Rowlandson, d. 1818 -- Military uniforms: Scottish officers' uniform.
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 headings: Male costume: riding habit -- Hon. William Ramsay Monk, Lord Panmure.
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 (1877)., Numbered '21' in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Weapons: swords -- Major Fisher.
Title from text below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Numbered '199' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Mason?
"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
"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
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '67' 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 text below image., Artist's monogram mostly worn from plate., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Numbered '95' in the lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text in image., Numbered '9' at top., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britiain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Title from text in image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Numbered "338" in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Numbered "117" in lower right of plate.
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)., Numbered '48' in lower right of plate., 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):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819
Leaf 20r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene on a city street: in the foreground an old woman, hunched over and leaning on a cane, carries a basket on her back. On the left in the mid-field another woman kneels in the street using a sieve(?). In the far distance left, a woman carries a yoke with two pails. A fourth woman looks out the window of a building in the right foreground
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Older people, Baskets, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 12r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man holding several bellows stands under an arch at one end of Blackfriars Wynd in Edinburgh's Old Town. Another man is seen in the background, standing at the other end of the dark, narrow lane
Alternative Title:
Head of Blackfriars Wynd
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Bellows, and Tenement houses
Leaf 11v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands in Edinburgh's Parliament Square, looking over his left shoulder and a bundle of clothing under his left arm. In the background on the right is the equestrian statue of Charles II is seen on its pedestal behind him with the facade of Goldsmiths' Hall in the background
Alternative Title:
Parliament Square
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Leaf 15r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands in the foreground, in profile to the right, a sack slung over his shoulder. Behind him on the opposite side of the street are two buildings, Conongate Kirk and Canongate Tolbooth
Alternative Title:
Canongate Church & Prison
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), Scotland, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Canongate Kirk (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Bags, Churches, and Prisons
Leaf 17r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A blind man stands in the foreground, in profile to the left, holding a cane in his left hand. The Chapel of Ease of St. Cuthbert's, in Crosscauseway, is seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Chapel of Ease, Cross Causeway
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Blind persons, Poor persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Churches
Leaf 2v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young girl, barefoot and holding a basket of turnips, stands on a cobblestone street with a classical-style balustrade flanking the sidewalk behind her. In the distance is Calton Hill
Alternative Title:
Bridewell Calton Hill from N.B.
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Calton Hill (Edinburgh, Scotland),, Scotland, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Girls, Baskets, and Vegetables
Leaf 21r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, carrying a basket of pies in his right arm, walks toward the right as he rings a bell; a dog walks behind him. Behind them, a man rests on his elbows the lower half of a Dutch door
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Pies, Baskets, Dogs, and Bells
Leaf 3v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man, holding a cane and a basket of eggs, stands in Edinburgh's New Town. St. Andrew's Church is seen in the background on the right; a carriage, two pedestrians, and a dog are seen in the background on the left
Alternative Title:
St. Andrews Street
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Older people, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Churches
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. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver, and Gilder, 1842, v. ii, 318., 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 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 headings: Trials -- Military: guards -- Court rooms -- McKean, James, d. 1797.
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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v.ii., Numbered "293" in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject headings: Trials -- Military: guards -- Court rooms -- McKean, James, d. 1797.
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency., and 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 14.5 x 8.5 cm.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
"Portrait of John Dowie, half length, directed and looking to the left, wearing coat with top button closed over waistcoat and hat; after Burnett; in octagonal frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scots magazine and Edinburgh literary miscellany. Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable by J. Ruthven & Sons, v. 68 (April 1806), and Text above image: For the Scots mag. & Edinr. literary miscellany.
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.
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 caption within image., Place and date of publication conjectured from that of book., A restrike probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate numbered '334' in lower right corner.
"Portrait; head and shoulders to left, with a curly beard, wearing a hat with a turned-up brim ad a coat with a broad collar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Paton, 1877, v. ii, no. 145., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the book., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed), v. i., Numbered in lower right of plate: 126., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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: Horses -- Horse whips -- Dogs -- Sir Archibald Hope, Baron Craighall, d. 1794.
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)., Numbered in lower right of plate: 93., and Temporary local subject terms: Orlando Hart -- William Jamieson -- Archibald M'Dowall -- Edinburgh: High Street -- Pavements.
Title from item., Date based on year (1853) when Robert Handyside became a Lord of Session., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 164 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
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.
Title from item., Plate number '304' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone -- Miss Penelope MacDonald -- Costume: Ladies' hat -- Window.
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Plate numbered "306" in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies costume -- Muff -- Hat.
Ministerial visitation of a Sabbath evening school
Description:
Title from item., 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.)., and Temporary local subject headings: Interiors: schools -- Children -- Schoolmasters -- Clergy: ministers.
"A satire on high-waisted dresses. A lady (left) stands holding an infant in a long robe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8897). She wears a round hat of masculine shape trimmed with three small feathers. Her dress hangs in straight folds from a line across, or above, her breast; behind appears the end of a train. Beside her stands a lady in back view: a transparent curtain veil hangs from her small hat. Her dress and a loose train held over the right arm hang from the shoulders. A stone wall forms a dark background to the light figures. See British Museum Satires No. 8896, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '105' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Priest -- Lawyer -- Farmer -- Devil -- Soldier.
"Portrait of an exceedingly tall man wearing a striped waistcoat and tailcoat, resting his right elbow on an open door while a tailor stands on a chair on the right, measuring his other arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 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: Giantism -- O'Brien, Patrick.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons), Human curiosities, and Tailoring
Title from item., 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. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838, v. ii. no. 210., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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: Mr. Pierie -- Mr. Maxwell.
"Caroline Norton with Lord Melbourne on her lap, as a lamb with human head; watching them from behind a tree is Mr Norton as a ram with cuckold's horns. One of a number of satires in 1836 referring to the scandal of Lord Melbourne's relationship with Caroline Norton (1808-1877), the abused wife of George Norton, who cited Melbourne in court."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.9512., and Printseller's label on verso: Sold by A. Lesage, Printseller & Framemaker, 21 Hanover Street, Edinburgh.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848, Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877, and Norton, George Chappele, 1800-1875
Ninety four years have I sojourned upon this earth endeavouring to do good
Description:
Title etched 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. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Rev. Joseph Cole, 1748-1826.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wesley, John, 1703-1791 and Hamilton, James, 1740-1827
