Portrait of Thomas Wood, standing whole-length directed slightly to right, his right hand tucked into his coat, left hand at his side, a bunch of flowers at left lapel, in an ordered garden with windmills in the background; after Ogborne; unlettered proof before margin cleared
Description:
Title, artist and publication information from Chaloner Smith. and Engraved from a painting by David Ogborne. Cf. Chaloner Smith.
Publisher:
Publish'd March the 1st 1774, by John Thane, printseller and medalist in Gerrard Street, Soho
Portrait of three Edinburgh characters; James Robertson, the "daft highland laird", John Dhu or Dow, and Baillie Duff, shown half length
Alternative Title:
Three Edinburgh bucks and Laird Robertson, John Dow & James Duff commonly called Baillie Duff
Description:
Version without inscriptions or title., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., Title and pintmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title in British Museum catalogue: Laird Robertson, John Dow & James Duff commonly called Baillie Duff., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Restrike of no. 6689 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Robertson, James, 1790-, Dow, John., and Duff, Jamie, -1788.
Charles Byrne and two other Irish giants stand surrounded by a group of spectators including Lord Monboddo, & William Richardson
Description:
Title and printmaker from volume., 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.)., and Numbered '4' in lower right of plate.
Portrait of two traveling shoemakers, both wearing turbans, one on the left named Mahomet and his son Abraham, on the right. They visited Edinburgh in 1784
Description:
Title and printmaker from book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837)., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Portrait of two traveling shoemakers, both wearing turbans, one on the left named Mahomet and his son Abraham, on the right. They visited Edinburgh 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 upper left of plate: 169.
"Nearly whole-length, sitting, directed to the right, facing and looking to the front, right hand resting on the arm of his chair, left hand on book, open in front of him, wearing mantel with fur trimming; scratched letter proof before title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger., Printmaker's and artist's names, date, and place of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.879., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from British Museum catalogue., One line of quote below image: In coelum jusseris ibit., One line of text below the quote: And bid him go to Hell, to Hell he goes., Frontispiece from: Baratariana. The second ed. Dublin, 1773., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Lord Frederick North -- Allusion to John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute -- Literature: quotation from Juvenal, Satires, iii, 78.
Full length portrait of an elderly and toothless John Wilkes, in hat, bag-wig, ruffled shirt and riding boots
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Another state has the number 'XIV' in upper left corner., and Mounted on page 5 with three other prints.
