Fashion

7x8 cm

Etching dated 1787 by John Kay published in A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings by the late John Kay, miniature painter, Edinburgh; with Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Anecdotes…Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, Edinburgh, 1838.
The etching depicts Captain Dalymple Horn Elphinstone (Sir Robert) of Horn, Westall and Logie and Miss Penelope (Penzie) Macdonald of Clanronald dressed "in the fashions then prevailing in the beau monde".
(See also another Kay etching of the couple entitled Love in our category heading General Portraits)