Title from item., Numbered '84' in lower right corner. From volume 1., Plate from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877., and Temporary local subject terms: Earl of Errol or Lord Haddo?
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Silhouettes.
[1788, i.e., not before 1877] and [not before 1877]
Call Number:
788.00.00.30.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Numbered '132' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Numbered '283' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., In pencil in lower left corner: 20., and In pencil in lower right corner: Edinburgh Fish Women.
William Macdonald Officer to the Highland Society of Scotland
Description:
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. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver, and Gilder, 1842, v. ii. no. 284., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1815 i.e. not before 1842] and [printed not before 1842]
Call Number:
815.00.00.15
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., 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 Ms. annotations in pencil near lower edge of sheet.
Portrait of the drug grinder William Wilson (1709-1815), known as ‘Mortar Willie’, who supposedly worked as a drug grinder for various apothecaries, chemists and druggists in Edinburgh until his 106th year. He is shown seated, using a large pestle and mortar
Alternative Title:
William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Compounding of drugs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilson, William, 1709-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Pharmacists, Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, and Older people
Portrait of the drug grinder William Wilson (1709-1815), known as ‘Mortar Willie’, who supposedly worked as a drug grinder for various apothecaries, chemists and druggists in Edinburgh until his 106th year. He is shown seated, using a large pestle and mortar
Alternative Title:
William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Compounding of drugs., and 1 print : etching ; plate mark 194 x 152 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilson, William, 1709-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Pharmacists, Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, and Older people
Leaf 7v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A street vendor in a hat and coart stands on a cobblestone street in front of the Royal Exchange, holding in his hands several roasting jacks. A second man hauling a basket on his back walks away in the background
Alternative Title:
Front of Royal Exchange
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, Cooking utensils, and Merchants' exchanges
Title from item., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book; the 1877 edition was issued with numbers on the plates., Numbered in lower right of plate: 10., and Temporary local subject terms: Presbyterian clergy -- Church interiors: Tolbooth Church -- Edinburgh: St. Giles's Church -- Sleepy congregations -- Strict Presbyterians: Tolbooth Whigs -- Campbell, John, d. 1795.
