a painting of a man with dark skin tone repairing a shoe, against a background of blue and yellow with other shoes and tools
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 57

"John Kay’s Watercolor Drawing John Campbell (1782)"

McGlashan, Wendy
2022
11 pages
9 illustrations
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 57 include essays on a crimson velvet “cloth of gold” associated with the Tudor dynasty; an exquisite pair of malachite torchères commissioned by the Russian Demidov family; and a drawing on muslin by Matȟó Nážiŋ detailing the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

Met Art in Publication

Mr. Alexander Campbell, Organist, Conducting Three Braying Asses, John Kay  British, Scottish, Watercolor
John Kay
1782
The Daft Highland Laird (James Robertson), John Dhu (a member of the Town Guard), and Jamie Duff (an Idiot), John Kay  British, Scottish, Etching
John Kay
1784
Let Puppys Bark and Asses Bray, Each Dog and Cur Will Have His Day: Alexander Campbell, John Campbell and Jamie Duff, John Kay  British, Scottish, Etching
John Kay
1784
Mr. John Campbell, Precenter in Cannongate Church, John Kay  British, Scottish, Etching
John Kay
ca. 1784
The Enraged Musician, William Hogarth  British, Etching and engraving; second or third state of three
William Hogarth
November 30, 1741
John Kay, Drawn and Engraved by Himself, John Kay  British, Scottish, Etching
John Kay
1786

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———. 2023b. S.l.: UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS.