"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.
"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 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.
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.?
Three-quarter length portrait of Maria Constantia, wife of Henry Howard, the 12th Earl of Suffolk, at the age of 23, the year before her death
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Maria Constantia
Description:
Lettered below the image, on a second plate, with the title, a crest bearing the motto 'Nous Maintien Drons', and "C. Read Pinxt. / J. Watson fecit / AD: 1766 AE: 23"., A coat of arms appears in the center in the caption area with motto: "Nous maintiendrons.", Watermark: illegible watermark (3 lines) towards bottom of sheet., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Maria Constantia, Countess of, b. 1743 or 44-1767
A design in five compartments, each occupied by a figure in profile to the right. Above each is an inscription. On the extreme left is a parson preaching from a pulpit; the head of the precentor appears in his desk beneath. Inscribed: 'I pray for all'. Next an advocate in his gown, his right hand raised: 'I plead for all'. Next a corpulent well-dressed man, holding up a sickle in his right hand: 'I maintain all'. Next is a still more corpulent military officer with a drawn sword: 'I fight for all'. Next is the Devil (no wings in this early state), prancing among flames, his talons extended: 'I take all'.
Description:
Title etched below image., The characters are: Dr. Andrew Hunter of the Tron Church, with John Campbell (unrecognizable), the precentor, see BMSat 5894, below him; Henry Erskine, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates 1785-96; James Rocheid of Inverleith, a distinguished agriculturist and absurdly self-important laird; Quartermaster Taylor, one of the defenders of Gibraltar., No. 56 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817, Hunter, Andrew, 1743-1809, and Rocheid, James
