The modern Cain's lament

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Title: The modern Cain's lament
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1798 i.e. not before 1842]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Restrike, with corrections to the plate, of No. 9166 in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
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 ed.).
Three lines of text below title: O, Harrie, whether shall I fly! I am this day a murderer of thousands ...
Temporary local subject headings: French invasion -- Military 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 12.1 x 8 cm, on sheet 25 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures Scotland 1798
Stipple engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Material: etching & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Scotland > 1798
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1842

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