The five all's [graphic]

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Description

Title
The five all's [graphic]
Creator
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created
[1788]
Publication Place
Edinburgh?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

A design in five compartments, each occupied by a figure in profile to the right. Above each is an inscription. On the extreme left is a parson preaching from a pulpit; the head of the precentor appears in his desk beneath. Inscribed: 'I pray for all'. Next an advocate in his gown, his right hand raised: 'I plead for all'. Next a corpulent well-dressed man, holding up a sickle in his right hand: 'I maintain all'. Next is a still more corpulent military officer with a drawn sword: 'I fight for all'. Next is the Devil (no wings in this early state), prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.

Description
Title etched below image.
The characters are: Dr. Andrew Hunter of the Tron Church, with John Campbell (unrecognizable), the precentor, see BMSat 5894, below him; Henry Erskine, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates 1785-96; James Rocheid of Inverleith, a distinguished agriculturist and absurdly self-important laird; Quartermaster Taylor, one of the defenders of Gibraltar.
No. 56 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance
From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent
1 print : sheet 23.8 x 14.9 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 C697 770

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) Scotland Edinburgh 1788
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1786
Engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1786
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817
Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809
Rocheid, James
Subject (Topic)
Clergy
Devil
Farmers
Soldiers
Subjects
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rocheid, James > Caricatures and cartoons
Clergy
Devil
Farmers
Soldiers
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1788
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1786

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
7925194
Object ID (OID)
16192311

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