Leaf 8v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman, balancing a basket on her head, stands in the foreground facing the viewer on the side of the street in front of Tron Kirk and an adjacent building. In the background, right, another peddler carrying a barrel on his back walks away
Alternative Title:
Tron Church, High Street
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, Wash tubs, Dairy products, and Churches
Leaf 9v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A sand peddler with a bucket in his hand stands beside his cart in the foreground while a boy sits upon the sand in the cart; in the background the Orphan Hospital
Alternative Title:
Orphan Hospital
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 (Name):
Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Carts & wagons, and Almshouses
Leaf 14r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A boy lifts down a basket from the back of cart to a woman, a second figure stands beside the cart on the right. The Palace of Holyroodhouse is seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Front of Holyrood House
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 (Name):
Palace of Holyroodhouse (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Carts & wagons, and Vegetables
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
Leaf 4v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A knife grinder works at his portable grinding machine in the foreground with the turrets of Heriot's Hospital in the background
Alternative Title:
Heriot's Hospital, from foot of W. Bow
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 (Name):
George Heriot's Hospital,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Street vendors, Sharpening & honing tools, and Grinding machines
Leaf 18r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man holds a whip in one hand and a tankard the other as he stands beside his horse on a city street; a large barrel is strapped on the horse's side
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, Milkmen, Horses, Barrels, and Drinking vessels
Leaf 13r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene at the corner of a building on a city street: a tall chimney sweep carries a ladder, his small, barefoot apprentice follows behind
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.
Leaf 10v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A street vendor in a hat and cloak stands on a city street holding a basket of watercress, a street lamp above her on the right
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, Vegetables, Baskets, and Street lamps
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker from an unverified card catalog record., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., An engraved letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "letter" by an envelope, "to" by a toe, "as" in Dundas by an ass., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2, Appendix, additional plate no. 357., and Temporary local subject terms: Devil.
Title from text below image., 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 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Highlanders -- Male costume: highlander chieftain.
View of the Scotch and French camp in Scotland, 1746
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and left., Temporary local subject terms: Military camps: Scotch and French -- Scottish military uniforms -- French military uniforms -- Drilling soldiers -- Guns: muskets -- Cannons -- Military tents -- Kitchen utensils: skillet -- Spit -- Cooking pots -- Wine bottles and glasses -- Gambling: cards -- Flags -- Children: boys -- Babies -- Dogs -- Horses -- Furniture: bassinet -- Music: Scottish bagpipes., A line of text, probably printmaker's name, in lower right below image erased from this impression., and Mounted to 33 x 53 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 and Historical reenactments
"An open carriage or landau, crowded with ladies, is drawn (left to right) by six men; a servant seated on the shoulders of the foremost acts as postilion. In front walks a man holding a quaigh or covered cup by one of its small legs; against his shoulder he holds a tartan flag. A man stands at the back of the carriage in the place of a footman, pointing with his left forefinger and saying, "Whip hard, Geordie". The driver, who holds reins attached to the noses of the wheelers, answers, "Dam it ['Get on' Kay] I'll not spare them Willie"; he flicks his whip over the heads of his team. The carriage is on a causeway of earth with a flat surface and rectangular side in which there is a culvert (left). Behind the carriage (left) is a board or a post: a hand points to 'Bs Bridge'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Visit to the Mud Bridge
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Boyd, George, active 1786., Duff, James, -1788., Hutton, Sibilla, active 1786-1808., and Yetts, William, 1796-1863.
Title from item. and A restrike probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i.
Title from item., Numbered '171' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and In pencil in lower right corner: John Dowie.
Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, printmaker
Published / Created:
1841.
Call Number:
841.00.00.36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portraits of John Jardine and Alexander Kidston, both whole-lengths, walking in street, in hats and coats, Jardine with spectacles and umbrella, Kidston in chequered waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Jardine
Description:
Title from text etched below each figure in image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Questionable publisher from that of the volume in which this plate was published., Plate also published in: Crombie, B. Modern Athenians: being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, MDCCCLI [1851]., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of left half of image. Description based on impression in the British Museum., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.3 x 20.3 cm., and Imperfect; left half of print showing Alexander Kidston has been trimmed away, leaving only the right half showing John Jardine.
Publisher:
Hugh Paton?
Subject (Name):
Jardine, John, 1777-1850 and Kidston, Alexander, 1762-1850
Title devised by curator., 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 (1837)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Allan MacDougall of Glenlochan -- Alexander Watson of Glenturkie -- Colquhuon Grant.
Title devised by cataloger., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Numbered in upper right of plate: 165., and Temporary local subject terms: Allan MacDougall of Glenlochan -- Alexander Watson of Glenturkie -- Colquhuon Grant.
"Portrait of broomseller and centenarian John Tait; whole length, standing in profile to right, wearing a patched coat with a bag in the pocket and a broad-brimmed hat, carrying brooms under his left arm, holding a staff in his right hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Copy of a print by A. Baillie after a drawing by W. Baillie. See: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 242., For a later state with the number "220" etched below lower right corner of image, see: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Paton, 1877, v. 2, no. 220., Three lines of text etched below title: Old John Tait the besom maker who travelled the country begging and selling besoms till he arrived at the age of one hundred & ten years. Died in Jany. 1772 leaving Young John and 27 other descendants., "From an original print by J.K."--At bottom of plate., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Plate mark not visible., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Beards -- Books -- Andrew Donaldson.
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Dedication below image: Dedicated without permission to the swine, the rabble & the wretches., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., and Temporary local subject headings: Hon. Simon Butler, 1757-1797 -- Walking staves.
"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.
Title devised by cataloger., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byrne, Charles, 1761-1783,, Cranstoun, Geordie, active 1784,, Fairholme, George, active 1730-1800,, McGowan, John, -1805,, and Watson, Alexander,
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., and Numbered "249" in lower right of plate.
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint 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 terms: Billair, Captain -- Walking staves -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms.
Bust portrait in an oval, a distinguished-looking man in profile to the left, on a dark background, simulating a cameo or medallion. Above the design: 'Les privilèges finiront, mais le peuple est eternel'.
Description:
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Numbered '237' in lower right of plate., Motto above the image: Les privilèges finiront, mais le peuple est éternel., and Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2.
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Numbered '231' in lower right of plate., and Motto above image: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., and Motto above image: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., and Numbered '359' in lower right of plate:
Title from text below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered in lower right corner of plate: 162., and Temporary local subject terms: Artwork -- Three Graces (Mythological characters) -- Quizzing glasses -- George Fairholme -- William Scott -- James Kerr.
Title from item., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book; the 1842 edition was issued without numbers on plates and on smaller size sheets., Reprint from 1877 of no. 8151 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered '20' above the plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Asses -- Meetings -- Barns -- Signs: tavern signboards -- Fences -- Scottish constitutional opposition -- Conventions: delegates from the Societies of the Friends of the People throughout Scotland, Dec. 11, 1792 -- Literature: Allusion to William Wilkie's (f. 1792) The Rights of Asses.
Title from item., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Temporary local subject terms: Earl of Errol or Lord Haddo? -- Dr. James Hutton.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714-1799, Davidson, John, -1797, and Paton, George, 1721-1807
Title from item., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.), Numbered '99' in the lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Earl of Errol or Lord Haddo? -- Dr. James Hutton.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord, 1714-1799, Davidson, John, -1797, and Paton, George, 1721-1807
Title from text below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842). Plate folded to fit the text block of this edition of the book., Restrike of No. 9053 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject headings: Carron Iron Company, Falkirk, Scotland -- Fires.
Title from text below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered '207' in lower right of plate., Restrike of No. 9053 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject headings: Carron Iron Company, Falkirk, Scotland -- Fires.
Two grotesques caricatures shown in profile, a man on left and woman on right, laughing and smiling at one another
Description:
Title from item. and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
Two grotesques caricatures shown in profile, a man on left and woman on right, laughing and smiling at one another
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from volume., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., and Restrike of no. 6696 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Engraved title page., Date of publication transposed following place of publication., With original marble wrappers on printed sheet and a front label: Cries of Edinburgh (Plain.) Price sixpence., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by L. Scott, bookseller end of College Drummond Street
Title from item., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., and Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842).
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 1., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Numbered '141' in lower right of plate:
"Portrait of a stout man, full-length standing in profile to left, gesturing with his right hand as he speaks, holding a scroll in his left, wearing a dark suit with frilled cravat, fob and tall black hat. 1."--British Museum online library
Alternative Title:
Cause & effect and Cause and effect
Description:
Title from caption below image., 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 : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Plate numbered '219' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Tentatively identified as Mr. John Leslie in local card catalog., and Figure identified by ms. annotation in pencil on lower portion of sheet.
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 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 publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered '206' 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 text below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"An officer (right), Col. Patrick Creighton (the adjutant), standing in profile to the left, his right arm and forefinger extended, drills a body of stout volunteers who march (right to left) in a serried triangular mass in the middle distance. Behind (right) a stout officer, Captain Coulter, stands in profile to the left with drawn sword. Three men march stiffly from right to left. In the background a body of volunteers, described as the awkward squad, stands full-face. The men are conspicuous for civic portliness, and the neatness and uniformity of their dress, in contrast with contemporary satires on English militiamen, &c, cf. BMSat 8503."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Edinburgh Royal Volunteers
Description:
Title from text below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., and Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.).
An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet., Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes., Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112., and Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation
Title from item., 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., and Numbered "166" in upper left of plate.
Title from item., Restrike from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Third of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792., Temporary local subject terms: Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Interiors: sheriff's office -- Trades: clerks -- Wagers -- Bell, Hamilton -- Rae, John (surgeon-dentist and Bell's bottle-holder) -- Pringle, John, Deputy-Sheriff of Edinburgh., and Restrike.
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., and Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842 ed.).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805, and Grieve, Henry, 1736-1810
Title from item., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., and Numbered in lower right of plate: 211.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Carlyle, Alexander, 1722-1805, and Grieve, Henry, 1736-1810
"An elderly 'cit' sleeps in a low, upright chair, leaning back till his profile faces the ceiling. His hands are clasped over his chest, his wig dangles from his coat-collar, and he puffs from tightly shut lips. The room is bare with a boarded floor. On a round table are a jug and glass, and the sleeper's pipe lying on 'Cobbett's Political Register'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827], opposite page 142., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray, published 1 November 1806 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 10644 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 343., and Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 561.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Sleep, Sleeping, Wigs, Pipes (Smoking), and Newspapers
Title from text above image., 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 ed.)., and Caption below image: The elder shall serve the younger. Rom. ix and 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Elder, Thomas, 1737-1799 and Baird, George Husband, 1761-1840
Leaf 6v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man walks on the street, balancing a tray filled with human and animal figurines supported by his right hand and balanced on his head. In the background, two chimney sweeps, the first carrying a ladder, walk past the rotunda of the General Register House
Alternative Title:
Back view of Register Office
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 (Name):
General Register House (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Figurines, and Chimney sweeps
Title from text in bottom left corner of image., 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 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Osbourne, Alexander -- Rowlandson, d. 1818 -- Military uniforms: Scottish officers' uniform.
Title from text below image., 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 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Male costume: riding habit -- Hon. William Ramsay Monk, Lord Panmure.
Title from text below image., 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)., Numbered '21' in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Weapons: swords -- Major Fisher.
Title from text below image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Numbered '199' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Mason?
"Portrait; half-length in profile to left, holding a scroll in his left hand; wearing a dark coat, jaw-length white wig and tricorn; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
"Portrait; half-length in profile to left, holding a scroll in his left hand; wearing a dark coat, jaw-length white wig and tricorn; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '67' in lower right corner., and Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i.
Title from text below image., Artist's monogram mostly worn from plate., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Numbered '95' in the lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text in image., Numbered '9' at top., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britiain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Title from text in image., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Numbered "338" in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
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. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Numbered "117" in lower right of plate.
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)., Numbered '48' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819
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)
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
Leaf 11v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands in Edinburgh's Parliament Square, looking over his left shoulder and a bundle of clothing under his left arm. In the background on the right is the equestrian statue of Charles II is seen on its pedestal behind him with the facade of Goldsmiths' Hall in the background
Alternative Title:
Parliament Square
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.
Leaf 15r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands in the foreground, in profile to the right, a sack slung over his shoulder. Behind him on the opposite side of the street are two buildings, Conongate Kirk and Canongate Tolbooth
Alternative Title:
Canongate Church & Prison
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):
Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), Scotland, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Canongate Kirk (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Bags, Churches, and Prisons
Leaf 17r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A blind man stands in the foreground, in profile to the left, holding a cane in his left hand. The Chapel of Ease of St. Cuthbert's, in Crosscauseway, is seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Chapel of Ease, Cross Causeway
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, Blind persons, Poor persons, Staffs (Sticks), and Churches
Leaf 2v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young girl, barefoot and holding a basket of turnips, stands on a cobblestone street with a classical-style balustrade flanking the sidewalk behind her. In the distance is Calton Hill
Alternative Title:
Bridewell Calton Hill from N.B.
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):
Calton Hill (Edinburgh, Scotland),, Scotland, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Girls, Baskets, and Vegetables
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
Leaf 3v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old man, holding a cane and a basket of eggs, stands in Edinburgh's New Town. St. Andrew's Church is seen in the background on the right; a carriage, two pedestrians, and a dog are seen in the background on the left
Alternative Title:
St. Andrews Street
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, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Churches
Title from text below image., 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, 318., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image., 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 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Trials -- Military: guards -- Court rooms -- McKean, James, d. 1797.
Title from text below image., 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 : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v.ii., Numbered "293" in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject headings: Trials -- Military: guards -- Court rooms -- McKean, James, d. 1797.
Title from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Freeman O'Donoghue, v.5, p. 59. and Temporary local subject terms: James Rae -- Dentists -- William Laing -- James Hay -- Doctors.
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency., and 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 14.5 x 8.5 cm.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Plate numbered "175" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mental deficiency.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
"Portrait of John Dowie, half length, directed and looking to the left, wearing coat with top button closed over waistcoat and hat; after Burnett; in octagonal frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scots magazine and Edinburgh literary miscellany. Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable by J. Ruthven & Sons, v. 68 (April 1806), and Text above image: For the Scots mag. & Edinr. literary miscellany.
Title from item., Title continues: Best hard metal tea pots & flats, cream pots, & sugar bowles, sacrament flaggons, cups & servers, porter cups, & sauce boats, tureen table & tea spoons; all the above of silver fashions, dishes & plates of hard & common metal, tureens & water plates, stake plates, tankards, & decanters, ice cream moulds, & freezers, basons, water pots, & bed pans, spit boxes, urinals, & feet warmers, injection pipes, & bide pans, syrringes, & surgeons measures, in haillers & worms for stills, ink chests, & stands, round & square, sugar, peper [sic], & mustard boxes, lemon strainers, & wine funels, candle moulds, short & long sizes, spirit & ale measures, all sizes, glass bottom tankards, jugs & salts. Also sells all kinds of copper and brass work, such as brewing & horse meat kettles, stills, coal buckets, & scupes, broath pots, goglits, & stew pans, sauce, skellet, & brass pans, brass & copper tea kettles, candlesticks, red or yellow metal, taper stands, table & house bells, brass cocks, pistols, & mortars, beams, scales, brass & lead weights, extinguishers, save alls & snuffers, japan'd mugs, painted or plain, leads & meals for damask weavers, church tokens, & farthing tickets, pumps & siphons for spirits. Money or goods for old pewter, copper, brass, and lead. Household furniture bought & sold by Mrs. Gardner auctioneer., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and On leaf 41 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
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.?
Title from caption within image., Place and date of publication conjectured from that of book., A restrike probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate numbered '334' in lower right corner.
"Portrait; head and shoulders to left, with a curly beard, wearing a hat with a turned-up brim ad a coat with a broad collar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Paton, 1877, v. ii, no. 145., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of the book., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed), v. i., Numbered in lower right of plate: 126., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text below image., 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 ed.)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Horse whips -- Dogs -- Sir Archibald Hope, Baron Craighall, d. 1794.
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)., Numbered in lower right of plate: 93., and Temporary local subject terms: Orlando Hart -- William Jamieson -- Archibald M'Dowall -- Edinburgh: High Street -- Pavements.
Title from item., Date based on year (1853) when Robert Handyside became a Lord of Session., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 164 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Printmaker and title from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7204, Plate worn. Possibly a printing for the 1837 or 1842 collections of Kay's work., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone -- Miss Penelope MacDonald -- Costume: Ladies' hat -- Window.
Title from item., Plate number '304' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone -- Miss Penelope MacDonald -- Costume: Ladies' hat -- Window.
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., Plate numbered "306" in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies costume -- Muff -- Hat.
Ministerial visitation of a Sabbath evening school
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 (1842 ed.)., and Temporary local subject headings: Interiors: schools -- Children -- Schoolmasters -- Clergy: ministers.
"A satire on high-waisted dresses. A lady (left) stands holding an infant in a long robe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8897). She wears a round hat of masculine shape trimmed with three small feathers. Her dress hangs in straight folds from a line across, or above, her breast; behind appears the end of a train. Beside her stands a lady in back view: a transparent curtain veil hangs from her small hat. Her dress and a loose train held over the right arm hang from the shoulders. A stone wall forms a dark background to the light figures. See British Museum Satires No. 8896, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '105' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Priest -- Lawyer -- Farmer -- Devil -- Soldier.
"Portrait of an exceedingly tall man wearing a striped waistcoat and tailcoat, resting his right elbow on an open door while a tailor stands on a chair on the right, measuring his other arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Giantism -- O'Brien, Patrick.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons), Human curiosities, and Tailoring
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, 1837-1838, v. ii. no. 210., 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 (1837)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Pierie -- Mr. Maxwell.
