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Contemplation
Kay, John, 1784, Etching
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Title
Contemplation
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Kay, John
Date
1784
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14 x 10 cm
Type
Etching
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows:
"This is another portrait of Lord Monboddo, representing him in his study, engaged, we may presume, in composing his 'Essay on the Origin and Progress of Language'.
In a corner of the apartment hangs a picture, in which his lordship's favourite notion of tails is illustrated by a group of little fellows adorned with these appendages."
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was born in 1714 and died in 1799. He was a pioneer anthropologist and assumed the title Lord Monboddo in 1767 when he became a judge in Edinburgh.
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