Laird Robertson, John Dow and James Duff (commonly called Baillie Duff)
Maker
(artist)
1742-1826
(publisher)
(printer)
1742-1826
(publisher)
(printer)
Title
Laird Robertson, John Dow and James Duff (commonly called Baillie Duff)
Date of Production
1877
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 26.9 cm
Width: 19.6 cm
Width: 19.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.4602.4
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Notes
Plate 2, Vol. I of A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings by John Kay. A set of 361 plates published in two volumes with an appendix, title pages and index to sitters. Second or later edition.
The title ascribed to this caricature by John Kay is: A Triumvirate. The Daft Highland Laird, John Dhu, or Dow, alias Macdonald, and Jamie Duff, an idiot.
This title contains potentially offensive language. However, because it is the historical caricature title given by the author, it has been retained here.
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper centre, printed: THREE EDIN.R BUCKS; speech scrolls of three interlocutors from left to right, printed: We're a'Fool folk / What do you say, Sir / Dodi-do my Chain; upper right, stamped [later Witt inscription]: WITT / LIBRARY; lower left, printed: K 1784; lower right, printed: 2.
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