Convention of asses, or, Spirit of democracy [graphic]

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Title: Convention of asses, or, Spirit of democracy [graphic]
Alternative Title: Spirit of democracy
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1792] and [printed not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book; the 1842 edition was issued without numbers on plates and on smaller size sheets.
Reprint from 1877 of no. 8151 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877).
Numbered '20' above the plate.
Temporary local subject terms: Asses -- Meetings -- Barns -- Signs: tavern signboards -- Fences -- Scottish constitutional opposition -- Conventions: delegates from the Societies of the Friends of the People throughout Scotland, Dec. 11, 1792 -- Literature: Allusion to William Wilkie's (f. 1792) The Rights of Asses.
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 12.4 x 10 cm, on sheet 25 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures Scotland 1792
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Material: etching & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Scotland > 1792
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

Access: Public
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