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Title: CAPITAL CARICATURES
A SELECTION OF ETCHINGS BY JOHN KAY
By: Sheila Szatkowski, Alexander McCall Smith, John Kay (Illus)
Format: Hardback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 1841586587
ISBN 13: 9781841586588
Publisher: BIRLINN GENERAL
Pub. date: 1 November, 2007
Pages: 192
Description: Features caricatures of the famous and the unknown, including: Adam Smith, James Hutton, Vincent Lunardi in his balloon, Lachlan McBain, a roasting jack vendor, Lord Monboddo, the skating minister, Robert Johnston and Sibilla Hunt, the most corpulent shopkeepers in Edinburgh, Margaret Sutter, a hawker of salt, Deacon Brodie, and, Henry Dundas.
Synopsis: Edinburgh at the end of the eighteenth century was a city teeming with life - eminent doctors and scientists, lawyers and clerics, ladies of fashion and their admirers, soldiers and merchants, murderers and criminals. John Kay was an etcher who recorded the living face of the city in hundreds of portraits, providing an engaging and unparalleled chronicle of Edinburgh life and people during this fascinating period.Within these pages you will find Kay's gentle and perceptive caricatures of the famous and the unknown, including: Adam Smith, James Hutton, Vincent Lunardi in his balloon, Lachlan McBain, a roasting jack vendor, Lord Monboddo, the skating minister, Robert Johnston and Sibilla Hunt, the most corpulent shopkeepers in Edinburgh, Margaret Sutter, a hawker of salt, Deacon Brodie, Henry Dundas, John Muir of Huntershill, Dr Alexander Hamilton, Dr James Graham (on North Bridge Street, chasing a lady). The etchings and accompanying text bring alive the Edinburgh of the period, from the famous to the fashionable, and will provide a lively introduction to the creativity of John Kay.It will be published at the same time as a Limited Edition of "A Series of Original Portraits and Character Etchings", a collection of 356 etchings and accompanying text, originally published in two volumes in 1837-8.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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