Patent for knighthood [graphic] / I. Kay fecit 1792.

Published/Created:

[Edinburgh
s.n
1792 i.e. not before 1842]

Physical Description:

1 print on wove paper : etching & stipple engraving ; sheet 25 x 15 cm.

Notes:

Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842).
Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Restrike of No. 8118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Dundas's opposition to the reform of the Royal Burghs, 1792 -- Allusion to Edinburgh riots, 1792 -- Male costume: cloak.
Joseph W. Reed.
Sheet trimmed within vertical plate lines, with minor loss to the statement of responsibility.

Associated Names:

Kay, John, 1742-1826 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Stirling, James, Sir, 1740 or 1741-1805

Language:

English

Genre:

Caricatures -- Scotland -- 1792
Etchings -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- 1792
Stipple engravings -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- 1792

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

792.00.00.94.1

Orbis Record:

7790605

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07376

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732714

PID:

digcoll:550890