"Four oval bust portraits arranged in two pairs on a shaded background. Above (left) is Eiston, a young man in profile on the right wearing a cocked hat, a leading macaroni among students at Edinburgh University, afterwards an army surgeon. Facing him is Hieronyno Stabilini, a violinist, d. Edinburgh 1815, aged 54. Below, the Laird of McNab faces Captain McKenzie of Redcastle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number '120' on lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Eiston -- Captain M'Kenzie -- Dr. Stablilius -- Francis McNab.
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.?
The figures are identified as John Campbell and Alexander Campell, with the Edinburgh character Baillie Duff, a blind Irish piper, Meek, and a fish-horn blower. This print was produced in response to Alexander Campbell's publication of a print that satirized John Kay, "A Medley of Musicians"; cf. British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Let puppy's bark and asses bray, each dog and cur will have his day
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Campbell, John, -1795. and Campbell, Alexander, 1764-1824.
Title assigned by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Plate numbered "134" in lower right corner.
John Home, physician at Edinburgh, walking on a terrace toward the right
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Plate from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings (1877 ed.), v. ii, no. 195., Number '195' added in lower right corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: John Home -- Doctors -- Terraces.
Title from Kay's A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842). and Temporary local subject terms: William Butter, Esq. -- John Morrison.
