"Half length portrait in profile to the left of a man holding a music score. He is fat and smiling, and wears his own scanty hair. After the title is engraved, "Singing Psalms of a Morning and over a Bowl of Punch Scotch Tunes at Night.""--British Museum online catalog
Alternative Title:
Mr. Campbell the jolly presenter of the Cannongate Kirk in Edinburgh
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Gillray by T. Haviland Burke and D. Perrins., Date from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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.
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.
Portrait of John Campbell, precentor of Cannongate, facing right and holding a book
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and Title, printmaker, and imprint from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1837).
