Plate No.34; The Author of the Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

£25.00

Artist / Engraver: drawn & engraved by John Kay

Medium / Size: copperplate etching / c.140 x 90mm

Date: 1877

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Artist / Engraver: drawn & engraved by John Kay

Medium / Size: copperplate etching / c.140 x 90mm

Date: 1877

Artist / Engraver: drawn & engraved by John Kay

Medium / Size: copperplate etching / c.140 x 90mm

Date: 1877

Brief Description: Kay’s “Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings” was published  three times in the 19th century; it contains 361 etchings of primarily but not exclusively Edinburgh citizens representing a unique and invaluable record of “the public characters of every grade and kind”