Patent for knighthood

Description

Title: Patent for knighthood
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1792] and [ not printed before 1842]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched 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 (1842).
Restrike of No. 8118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Dundas's opposition to the reform of the Royal Burghs, 1792 -- Allusion to Edinburgh riots, 1792 -- Male costume: cloak.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within vertical plate lines, with minor loss to the statement of responsibility.
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 : sheet 25 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures Scotland 1792
Stipple engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Material: etching & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Stirling, James, Sir, 1740 or 1741-1805
Subjects: Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stirling, James, Sir, 1740 or 1741-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Scotland > 1792
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1842

Access: Public
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