Engraving of Sergeant William Duff by John Kay

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Sergeant Duff served in the 42nd Regiment or Royal Highland Regiment, also known as the Black Watch. He enlisted in August 1806, at the age of 14. He served with the regiment in many battles of the Peninsular Wars, and was wounded at Waterloo.

The engraving is dated the year after the Battle of Waterloo.

John Kay was born near Edinburgh in 1742. A keen artist from childhood, he was a barber until 1785 when he became a full-time engraver and painter of miniatures. His portraits of Edinburgh characters are vivid and unmistakable.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-230-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  Lib.1640.91
• Date: 1816
  
• Material: Paper
  Print / portrait
  
• Dimensions: 280 mm H
  
• What: Print / portrait
  
• Subject: Prints
  
• Who: 42nd Regiment
  John Kay (artist)
  Sergeant William Duff
  
• Where: Scotland, Midlothian, Edinburgh (depicted)
  
• Event:
• Description: 42nd Regiment or Royal Highland Regiment - Portrait of Sergeant William Duff, of the Forty-Second Regiment, by John Kay, Edinburgh, 1816. From Kay's Portraits. Volume II, Plate XCI.
  
• References:
  • Kay, John A series of original portraits and caricature etchings with biographical sketches and anecdotes 2 volumes Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1837-38 
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