A [letter] [to] Sir L------e Dund[as] [graphic]

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Title: A [letter] [to] Sir L------e Dund[as] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Letter to Sir Laurence Dundas
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Adam and Charles Black
Description: 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.
Temporary local subject terms: Devil.
Provenance: Suckling; Nov. 1958;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) Scotland 1762
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1762
Rebuses
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Dundas, Lawrence, Sir, ca. 1710-1781
Subjects: Dundas, Lawrence, Sir, ca. 1710-1781 > Caricatures and cartoons
Scotland > 1762
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1762

Access: Public
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