Demonstration, or, Cause & effect [graphic]

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Title: Demonstration, or, Cause & effect [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cause & effect
Cause and effect
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1817] and [printed not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of a stout man, full-length standing in profile to left, gesturing with his right hand as he speaks, holding a scroll in his left, wearing a dark suit with frilled cravat, fob and tall black hat. 1."--British Museum online library
Description: Title from caption 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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii.
Plate numbered '219' in lower right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Tentatively identified as Mr. John Leslie in local card catalog.
Figure identified by ms. annotation in pencil on lower portion of sheet.
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 16.6 x 10.5 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

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