Genre: Caricatures Scotland 1792 - Yale University Library Search Results

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1. Captain Billair and his wife

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792] and [printed ca. 1842]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.95.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Billair, Captain -- Walking staves -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Captain Billair and his wife

2. Convention of asses, or, Spirit of democracy [graphic]

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792] and [printed not before 1877]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.37.1 Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Spirit of democracy
Description:: Title from item., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book; the 1842 edition was issued without numbers on plates and on smaller size sheets., Reprint from 1877 of no. 8151 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered '20' above the plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Asses -- Meetings -- Barns -- Signs: tavern signboards -- Fences -- Scottish constitutional opposition -- Conventions: delegates from the Societies of the Friends of the People throughout Scotland, Dec. 11, 1792 -- Literature: Allusion to William Wilkie's (f. 1792) The Rights of Asses.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Convention of asses, or, Spirit of democracy [graphic]

3. Dr. Thomas Snell Jones

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792] and [not printed before 1877]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.97
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered '206' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Jones, T. S. (Thomas Snell)
Subject (Topic):: Clergy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dr. Thomas Snell Jones

4. Patent for knighthood

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792] and [ not printed before 1842]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.94.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched 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 (1842)., Restrike of No. 8118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Dundas's opposition to the reform of the Royal Burghs, 1792 -- Allusion to Edinburgh riots, 1792 -- Male costume: cloak., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within vertical plate lines, with minor loss to the statement of responsibility.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Stirling, James, Sir, 1740 or 1741-1805
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Patent for knighthood

5. Patent for knighthood

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792 i.e. not before 1877] and [not before 1877]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.94
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Numbered '150' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Restrike of No. 8118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Dundas's opposition to the reform of the Royal Burghs, 1792 -- Allusion to Edinburgh riots, 1792 -- Male costume: cloak.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Stirling, James, Sir, 1740 or 1741-1805
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Patent for knighthood

6. Rev. Dr. Thomas Davidson

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792] and [not printed before 1877]
Call Number:: 790.00.00.130
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., 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)., Numbered '154' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Davidson, Thomas, 1747-1827
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Rev. Dr. Thomas Davidson

7. Rev. Dr. Thomas Davidson

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792] and [not printed before 1842]
Call Number:: 790.00.00.130.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title devised 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 (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Davidson, Thomas, 1747-1827,
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Rev. Dr. Thomas Davidson

8. The evening walk

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792 i.e. not before 1877]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.88.2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Numbered '130' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain James Justice, 1755-?
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The evening walk

9. [A wager] [graphic]

Creator:: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1792, i.e. not before 1842] and [printed not before 1842]
Call Number:: 792.00.00.45.1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from the British Museum catalogue., 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 (1842)., First of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792., "No. 1.", Restrike of No. 8184 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Walking-matches -- Bottle-holders -- Trades: fishwives -- Baskets: creels -- Fish -- Harnesses -- Bell, Hamilton -- Rae, John (surgeon-dentist and Bell's bottle-holder)., and "No. 1" in upper left corner illegible.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A wager] [graphic]