Title etched below image., 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 (1837)., Cf. No. 7582 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Fashion: male riding costume, 1789 -- Antiquarians -- Architectural details: columns.
Title, printmaker, and imprint from the volume., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., 1842 reprint of No. 7582 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Fashion: male riding costume, 1789 -- Antiquarians -- Architectural details: columns.
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
Title from caption 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 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Figures identified by ms. annotations in pencil.
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 (1842)., Very faint impression of the word "fecit' below oval., 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 (1842)., 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 (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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 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 (1877)., Numbered '193' in lower right of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Walking staves.
Title and imprint from item., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. 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: Interiors: libraries -- Furniture: tables -- Inkwells -- Quills -- Walking staves.
A single image of a distressed man (the client) wearing a hat, which when turned becomes an image of a gleeful lawyer wearing a periwig
Alternative Title:
Lawyer
Description:
Title from item., Kay's initial burnished from plate, below image of "The Lawyer"?, Numbered "18" in letterpress above plate mark., Plate from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1838, Appendix, no. 18., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
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.
Title from item., Numbered '130' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain James Justice, 1755-?
Title from text below image., 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 (1842)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain James Justice, 1755-?
"George Smith (left) stands in profile to the right holding his hat, gazing fixedly at Deacon Brodie (right), who stands almost full-face looking to the front. Smith's clothes are out at elbows. Brodie is well dressed, wearing a cocked hat, a seal hangs from his fob, he holds a tasselled cane. Beside him are (left) a spurred game-cock and a dog, whose fierce-looking head appears on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Print numbered '106' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Brodie, William, 1741-1788, and Smith, George, -1788,
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, prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.
Description:
Title from item., Title etched below images., 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., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Later state of: No. 7416 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
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 etched below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the 1842 ed. of 'Series'., Probably from: 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: Francis Anderson -- James Hunter, 1741-1805 -- George Austin.
"Portrait of Sir William Forbes (Banker) with inscription "The Good Shall Mourn A Brother - All A Friend" (obverse) (obverse)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably from: A seris of original portraits and caricature etching by the late John Kay (1842), v. ii, no. 145, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Portrait of Sir William Forbes (Banker) with inscription "The Good Shall Mourn A Brother - All A Friend" (obverse) (obverse),"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877), v. i., Numbered '76' in the lower left corner of image., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
