[Mr. John Wemyss, Mr. Robert Clerk, and George Pratt] [graphic]

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Title: [Mr. John Wemyss, Mr. Robert Clerk, and George Pratt] [graphic]
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depicts standing from left to right, John Wemyss the town crier with his bell, Robert Clerk, bookseller, and George Pratt, also Edinburgh town crier in 1784
Description: 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: 181.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 84 x 95 mm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Material: etching with drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Scotland
Edinburgh
Subject (Name): Wemyss, John, d. 1788.
Clerk, Robert, 1738-1810.
Pratt, George, fl. 1784.
Subject (Topic): Town criers
Subjects: Wemyss, John, d. 1788
Clerk, Robert, 1738-1810
Pratt, George, fl. 1784
Town criers > Scotland > Edinburgh
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

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