[Three Edinr. bucks] [graphic]

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Title: [Three Edinr. bucks] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Three Edinburgh bucks
Laird Robertson, John Dow & James Duff commonly called Baillie Duff
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1784 i.e. not before 1837]
Publication Place: Edinburgh?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of three Edinburgh characters; James Robertson, the "daft highland laird", John Dhu or Dow, and Baillie Duff, shown half length
Description: Version without inscriptions or title.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837).
Title and pintmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title in British Museum catalogue: Laird Robertson, John Dow & James Duff commonly called Baillie Duff.
Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Restrike of no. 6689 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6?
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 85 x 107 mm., on sheet 24 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1837
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Robertson, James, 1790-
Dow, John.
Duff, Jamie, -1788.
Subjects: Robertson, James, 1790-
Dow, John
Duff, Jamie, -1788
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1837

Access: Public
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