Gentlemen draw your swords

Description

Title: Gentlemen draw your swords
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1790]
Publication Place: Edinburgh and not printed before 1877
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from text below 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 (1877).
Numbered '21' in lower right of plate.
Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Weapons: swords -- Major Fisher.
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 16.5 x 8 cm, on sheet 27 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures Scotland 1790
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Material: etching & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Scotland > 1790
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

Access: Public
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