CAPITAL CARICATURES: A SELECTION OF ETCHINGS BY JOHN KAY By Sheila Szatkowski Birlinn, 9.99

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: December 16, 2007| Author: Reviewed by Alan Taylor | Copyright information

JOHN Kay, who was born in Dalkeith in 1742, was an Edinburgh barber who metamorphosed into a Scottish equivalent of the English caricaturists Gillray and Rowlandson. But as Sheila Szatkowski wisely acknowledges in this wholly delightful and endlessly fascinating selection of his etchings, Kay was never as savage as Gillray or as sarcastic as Rowlandson.

His art was altogether more subtle, born more often than not out of fondness rather than of a desire to hold his subjects up to ridicu...

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