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(1) No. 1 - Lash-me-has, Col. Brown

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https://digital.nls.uk/75496599

Description

Manuscript note above engraving: "Dead", and below reads: "Lash-me-has Col. Brown". This is Dr John Brown alias “the devil killer”. See John Kay's Edinburgh portraits (74457553) portrait no cxxxv, pp. 394f., vol. 2; Kay’s portrait is later.

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Form / genre:

Images > Pictures > Prints > Intaglio prints > Etchings
Images > Pictures > Cartoons (commentary) > Caricatures

Dates / events:

1799 [Date created]
1799-1805 [Date created]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place created]

Subject / content:

Umbrellas
Walking sticks
Tricornes
Costume (mode of fashion)
Greatcoats
Soldiers
Customs employees
Caricatures
Cartoons (humorous images)
Color prints (prints)
Portraits
Engravings (prints)

Person / organisation:

Brown, John, the "devil-killer" [Depicted]
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929 [Former owner]
Colquhoun, James, Sir, 1741-1805 [Depicted]
Murray, George, Sir, 1772-1846 [Depicted]
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835 [Depicted]
Crawford, George Lindsay-Crawford, Earl of, 1758-1808 [Depicted]
Sempill, Hugh Sempill, Baron, 1758-1830 [Depicted]
Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839 [Depicted]
Jenkins, J., active 1799-1805 [Artist]
Buccleuch, George William Douglas, Duke of, 1772-1819 [Depicted]
Jardine, William, Sir, -1807 [Depicted]
Aboyne, George Gordon, Earl of, 1761-1853 [Depicted]
Errol, William Hay, Earl of, 1772-1819 [Depicted]
Moray, Francis Stuart, Earl of, 1737-1810 [Depicted]
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 [Depicted]
Zetland, Lawrence Dundas, Earl of, 1766-1839 [Depicted]

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Edinburgh characters by J. Jenkins

Description

Around 150 hand-coloured caricatures of Edinburgh celebrities and unknown characters. Etchings by artist J. Jenkins in the style of John Kay. Plates dated from 1799 to 1805. Characters include prominent people like Lord Dundas, Sir John Sinclair, Earl of Crawford, Lord Montague. Also 'a leads merchant' and an unidentified soldier.

Shelfmark

Ry.II.b.16

Additional NLS resources:

Library catalogue record

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Form / genre:

Images > Pictures > Cartoons (commentary) > Caricatures
Images > Pictures > Prints > Intaglio prints > Etchings

Dates / events:

1799-1805 [Date created]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place created]

Subject / content:

Portraits
Color prints (prints)
Engravings (prints)
Caricatures
Cartoons (humorous images)

Person / organisation:

Jenkins, J., active 1799-1805 [Artist]
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929 [Former owner]
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835 [Depicted]
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 [Depicted]
Zetland, Lawrence Dundas, Earl of, 1766-1839 [Depicted]
Moray, Francis Stuart, Earl of, 1737-1810 [Depicted]
Crawford, George Lindsay-Crawford, Earl of, 1758-1808 [Depicted]
Sempill, Hugh Sempill, Baron, 1758-1830 [Depicted]
Murray, George, Sir, 1772-1846 [Depicted]
Buccleuch, George William Douglas, Duke of, 1772-1819 [Depicted]
Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839 [Depicted]
Jardine, William, Sir, -1807 [Depicted]
Colquhoun, James, Sir, 1741-1805 [Depicted]
Aboyne, George Gordon, Earl of, 1761-1853 [Depicted]
Errol, William Hay, Earl of, 1772-1819 [Depicted]

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