Three Edinr. bucks [graphic]

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Title: Three Edinr. bucks [graphic]
Alternative Title: Three Edinburgh bucks
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1784] and [printed not before 1837]
Publication Place: Edinburgh?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of three Edinburgh characters: James Robertson, the "daft highland laird", John Dhu or Dow, and Baillie Duff, shown half length
Description: Title etched above 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 (1837).
Restrike of No. 6689 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
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 9.1 x 11.8 cm, on sheet 16 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures and cartoons..
Caricatures Scotland 1784
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1837
Material: etching with stipple & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Robertson, James, d. 1790
Dow, John
Duff, Jamie, -1788
Subjects: Robertson, James, d. 1790 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dow, John > Caricatures and cartoons
Duff, Jamie, -1788 > Caricatures and cartoons..
Scotland > 1784
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1837

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