Portrait of John Campbell, precentor of Cannongate, facing right and holding a book
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., and Numbered '203' in lower right of plate.
Depicts standing from left to right, John Wemyss the town crier with his bell, Robert Clerk, bookseller, and George Pratt, also Edinburgh town crier in 1784
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)., and Numbered in lower right of plate: 181.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh
Subject (Name):
Wemyss, John, d. 1788., Clerk, Robert, 1738-1810., and Pratt, George, fl. 1784.
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 ed.)., Numbered '108' 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: Walking staves -- Wright, John.
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., Numbered '345' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Plate numbered '250' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Figure identified in pencil annotations on both sides of sheet.
Title published volume., 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., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Numbered '133' 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: Neil Fergusson -- Bomlawski.
Title, imprint conjectured from that of book; the 1877 ed. was issued with numbers on plates., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchngs by the late John Ka. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i, no. 118., Plate numbered '301' in the lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Figure identified by note in pencil near lower edge of sheet.
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), v. ii, no. 238., Numbered '238' in the 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: Rev. David Black.
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 '215' in lower right corner of plate., 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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii, no. 245., Numbered in lower right of plate: 245., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
