[Hugo Arnot and Gingerbread Jock] [graphic]

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Title: [Hugo Arnot and Gingerbread Jock] [graphic]
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1784] and [printed not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A tall, very thin Hugo Arnot handis a coin to a beggar who stands near the corner of a building
Description: Title and printmaker from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6692.
Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the book.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.).
Numbered '8' in lower right of plate.
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 133 x 98 mm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Portrait prints
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Material: etching with stipple & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Scotland
Subject (Name): Arnot, Hugo, 1749-1786
Subject (Topic): Beggars
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Arnot, Hugo, 1749-1786 > Caricatures and cartoons
Beggars
Clothing & dress > Scotland > 1780-1790
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

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