Title from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue, v.5, p. 59. and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
John Home, M.D., physician at Edinburgh, walking on a terrace toward the right
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Temporary local subject terms: John Home -- Doctors -- Terraces., and Mis-identified in pencil mss. note as John Home or Hume, elder [bro?] David H.?
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., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Bailie James Dickson -- Bailie James Torry., Later impression without the '49' in lower right corner., and 1 print ; sheet 27.3 x 21.3 cm.
Title from British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of engraved British Portraits, v.5, p. 59, Numbered '167' in upper right corner., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
