Captain Billair and his wife

Description

Title: Captain Billair and his wife
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1792] and [printed ca. 1842]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title assigned by cataloger.
Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842).
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Billair, Captain -- Walking staves -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms.
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 11.2 x 8 cm, on sheet 25 x 15 cm
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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