Copper-bottom's retreat, or, A view of Carron work!!! [graphic]

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Title: Copper-bottom's retreat, or, A view of Carron work!!! [graphic]
Alternative Title: View of Carron work
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1797] and [not printed before 1842]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from text below image.
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). Plate folded to fit the text block of this edition of the book.
Restrike of No. 9053 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Temporary local subject headings: Carron Iron Company, Falkirk, Scotland -- Fires.
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 16 x 21 cm, on sheet 25 x 20 cm, folded to 25 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures Scotland 1797
Aquatints Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Stipple engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1842
Material: etching, aquatint & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Forbes, William, Sir, 1756-1823
Subjects: Forbes, William, Sir, 1756-1823 > Caricatures and cartoons
Scotland > 1797
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1842

Access: Public
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