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[An Edinburgh auction]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[An Edinburgh auction]
Description
English: William Martin, grinning broadly, stands in his rostrum, holding up a print (a profile head of a bearded man); in his right hand is his hammer. Beneath him is a sea of raised heads, about two-thirds being in profile to the right, the others in profile to the left, with a few in back view. All wear hats. The rostrum is lit by two candles. 1785 [?]
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Depicted people Associated with: William Martin
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 85 millimetres
Width: 164 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.13.56
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Martin was a noted Edinburgh bookseller of humble origin, full of anecdote and humour in his auction-room. See BMSat 6845. Collection, No. 56. Kay, No. LXI.

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>From an album of Kay's work, apparently assembled by the artist: see 1935,0522.13.1
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-13-56
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