The client [graphic]

Description

Title: The client [graphic]
Alternative Title: Lawyer
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: 1838]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder
Abstract: 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
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.
Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Provenance: Suckling; Jan. 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 7.8 x 7 cm, on sheet 25 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Metamorphic pictures
Caricatures Scotland 1790
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1790
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1790
Material: etching & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Wigs
Lawyers
Law & legal affairs
Subjects: Wigs
Lawyers
Law & legal affairs
Scotland > 1790
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1790

Access: Public
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