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1.
[Mr. Alexander Wood] [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
1784 [i.e. not before 1877]
Call Number:
877.00.00.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The surgeon Alexander Wood is depicted full length and facing left, walking with an umbrella under his left arm
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '68' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., Printmaker and title from volume., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Wood, Alexander, 1725-1807.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Mr. Alexander Wood] [graphic]

2.
[Two Turks] [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1784 i.e. not before 1877]
Call Number:
877.00.00.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
Muslims and Turbans
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Two Turks] [graphic]

3.
[Dr. Alexander Hamilton] [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
1786. and [printed not before 1877]
Call Number:
786.00.00.71
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Pregnant women, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Dr. Alexander Hamilton] [graphic]

4.
[The Hon. Basil Cochrane and James Edgar, Esq., commissioners of the customs] [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
1837-1838.
Call Number:
837.00.00.28
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an outdoor setting with trees, Cochrane on the left and Edgar in the center are shown with a beggar on the right who solicits a contribution
Description:
Title, printmaker and imprint from volume. and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Cochrane, Basil, -1788. and Edgar, James, -1799.
Subject (Topic):
Customs employees, Beggars, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The Hon. Basil Cochrane and James Edgar, Esq., commissioners of the customs] [graphic]

5.
[Two Turks] [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1784 i.e. not before 1837] and [not before 1837]
Call Number:
837.00.00.39
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
Muslims and Turbans
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Two Turks] [graphic]

6.
The sporting ladies reply to Mr Reynard the Fox's list, or Burlesque, on them, and their profession

Published / Created:
[ca 1820?]
Call Number:
File 646 820 Sp764
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., "Price to gentlemen, 2d. Tradesmen and servants, 1d."--Preceding imprint statement., "Tune, O' a the airts the wind, &c.", First lines read: Ye noblemen and gentlemen / Who're come to join the fun, / To see the races o'er again, / And nymphs upon the town., and Numbered in black ink "88" lower left corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for the author
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The sporting ladies reply to Mr Reynard the Fox's list, or Burlesque, on them, and their profession, &c. : hawked by a black badger, his secretary

7.
Here Nicodemus bauls with hissing tone, old bellows-es to mend" before I'm gone [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
647 803C
Collection Title:
Leaf 12r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man holding several bellows stands under an arch at one end of Blackfriars Wynd in Edinburgh's Old Town. Another man is seen in the background, standing at the other end of the dark, narrow lane
Alternative Title:
Head of Blackfriars Wynd
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Bellows, and Tenement houses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Here Nicodemus bauls with hissing tone, old bellows-es to mend" before I'm gone [graphic].

8.
Here pie-man John calmly cries, 'Tingle tingle ting, gude piping pies' [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
647 803C
Collection Title:
Leaf 21r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, carrying a basket of pies in his right arm, walks toward the right as he rings a bell; a dog walks behind him. Behind them, a man rests on his elbows the lower half of a Dutch door
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Pies, Baskets, Dogs, and Bells
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Here pie-man John calmly cries, 'Tingle tingle ting, gude piping pies' [graphic].

9.
Here Madge doth trudge thro' wet and dry, what'll buy salt, is Madge's cry [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
647 803C
Collection Title:
Leaf 20r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene on a city street: in the foreground an old woman, hunched over and leaning on a cane, carries a basket on her back. On the left in the mid-field another woman kneels in the street using a sieve(?). In the far distance left, a woman carries a yoke with two pails. A fourth woman looks out the window of a building in the right foreground
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Older people, Baskets, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Here Madge doth trudge thro' wet and dry, what'll buy salt, is Madge's cry [graphic].

10.
'My pease & beans wha'll buy frae me, they're hot & warm as warm can be' [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
647 803C
Collection Title:
Leaf 19r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman, wearing a hooded cloak and carrying a basket, stands in a city square on a moonlight night. Behind her to the left, Grassmarket and on the right, Edinburgh Castle
Alternative Title:
My pease and beans wha'll buy frae me ... and Castle, from the Grass Market
Description:
Title from verses etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Grassmarket (Edinburgh, Scotland),, Scotland, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Vegetables, Baskets, Capes (Clothing), Markets, and Castles & palaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > 'My pease & beans wha'll buy frae me, they're hot & warm as warm can be' [graphic].