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C1842
John Knox, the Scottish Reformer.
Artist:
John Kay (1742 - 1826)
Portrait of John Knox (1514–1572), a Scottish minister, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country’s Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
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Full Title:
John Knox, the Scottish Reformer.
Date:
C1842
Artist:
John Kay (1742 - 1826)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Etching
Image Size:
80mm
x 138mm
Paper Size:
124mm
x 185mm
Platemark Size:
113mm
x 158mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1842
Description:
Portrait of John Knox (1514–1572), a Scottish minister, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country’s Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
Biography:
John Kay (1742-1826)
Kay was a Scottish caricaturist and engraver.
He was born near Dalkeith, where his father was a mason. At thirteen he was apprenticed to a barber, whom he served for six years. He then went to Edinburgh, where in 1771 he obtained the freedom of the city by joining the corporation of barber-surgeons. In 1784 he published his first caricature, of Laird Robertson. In 1785, induced by the favour which greeted certain attempts of his to etch in aquafortis, he took down his barber’s pole and opened a small print shop in Parliament Close. There he continued to flourish, painting miniatures, and publishing at short intervals his sketches and caricatures of local celebrities and oddities, who abounded at that period in Edinburgh society.
Kay’s famous shop on the Royal Mile was destroyed during the Great Edinburgh Fire of November 1824.
