"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.
On the right, the representatives of George III gathered on a dais under an ornate canopy with the King's initials on it, preside over a session of the Assembly. In the foreground, the ministers of the Church of Scotland are engaged in discussion and reviewing of documents. The surrounding pews are occupied by petitioners and their attorneys while the general public views the proceedings from the galleries above
Alternative Title:
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder to the Queen
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland. and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Judicial proceedings, Courtrooms, and Clothing & dress
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 (1842)., Very faint impression of the word "fecit' below oval., 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 (1842)., 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 (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., 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. i, no. 30., Numbered in lower right of plate: 30., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: Maces.
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842), v. i, pt 1, p. 67., See no. 7580 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, for earlier state., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: maces.
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).
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 (1842)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Clergy.
