Levelling of the High Street of Edinburgh

Description

Title: Levelling of the High Street of Edinburgh
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [1785] and [printed not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
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 lower right of plate: 93.
Temporary local subject terms: Orlando Hart -- William Jamieson -- Archibald M'Dowall -- Edinburgh: High Street -- Pavements.
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 9.4 x 11 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures Scotland 1785
Drypoints Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1877
Material: etching & drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Scotland > 1785
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1877

Access: Public
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