"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
Title from caption within image., Place and date of publication conjectured from that of book., A restrike probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate numbered '334' in lower right corner.
Title from text below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the book., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed), v. i., Numbered in lower right of plate: 126., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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., and Temporary local subject terms: Orlando Hart -- William Jamieson -- Archibald M'Dowall -- Edinburgh: High Street -- Pavements.
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Plate numbered "306" in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies costume -- Muff -- Hat.
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '105' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Priest -- Lawyer -- Farmer -- Devil -- Soldier.
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., and Numbered '25' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799, and Hutton, James, 1726-1797,
A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
Alternative Title:
Cudgeller caught
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 (1877)., Numbered in lower left of plate: 47., and Restrike of no 6691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2, no. 270., Numbered '270' in lower right of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Clergy -- Sermons.