[Two Turks] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Two Turks] [graphic]
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1784 i.e. not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of two traveling shoemakers, both wearing turbans, one on the left named Mahomet and his son Abraham, on the right. They visited Edinburgh in 1784
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
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 (1877).
Numbered in upper left of plate: 169.
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 6.0 x 9.2 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Material: etching with stipple & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Scotland
Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic): Muslims
Turbans
Subjects: Muslims > Scotland > Edinburgh
Turbans
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

Access: Public
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