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See also:KAY, See also:JOHN (1742-1826) , Scottish caricaturist, was See also:born near See also:Dalkeith; where his See also:father was a See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
mason. At thirteen he was apprenticed to a See also:barber, whom he served for six years. He then went to See also:Edinburgh, where in 1771 he obtained the freedom of the See also:city by joining the See also:corporation of barber-surgeons. In 1785, induced by the favour which greeted certain attempts of his to etch in aquafortis, he took down his barber's See also:pole and opened a small See also:print See also:shop in See also:Parliament Square. There he continued to flourish, See also:painting miniatures, and See also:publishing at See also:short intervals his sketches and caricatures of See also:local celebrities and oddities, who abounded at that See also:period in Edinburgh society. He died on the 21st of See also:February 1826.
Kay's portraits were collected by See also:Hugh See also:Paton and published under the See also:title A See also:series of See also:original portraits and See also:caricature etchings by the See also:late John Kay, with See also:biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes (Edin., 2 vols. 4to, 1838; 8vo ed., 4 vols., 1842; new 4to ed., with additional plates, 2 vols., 1877), forming a unique See also:record
of the social See also:life and popular habits of Edinburgh at its most interesting See also:epoch.
End of Article: KAY, JOHN (1742-1826)
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