[A wager] [graphic]

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Title: [A wager] [graphic]
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1792, i.e. not before 1842] and [printed not before 1842]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from the British Museum catalogue.
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 (1842).
First of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792.
"No. 1."
Restrike of No. 8184 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Walking-matches -- Bottle-holders -- Trades: fishwives -- Baskets: creels -- Fish -- Harnesses -- Bell, Hamilton -- Rae, John (surgeon-dentist and Bell's bottle-holder).
"No. 1" in upper left corner illegible.
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 129 x 116 mm, on sheet 250 x 150 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures Scotland 1792
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Stipple engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Material: etching & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Scotland > 1792
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1842

Access: Public
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