"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
