"Interior view of the great room at Brookes's Subscription House; men sit playing cards at large round tables to the right side of room; a grand chandelier hanging from ceiling; sofas and smaller tables to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great Subscription Room at Brooks's, St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Octr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club),
Subject (Topic):
Private clubs, Interiors, Parlors, Card games, Gambling, and Chandeliers
"Interior view of the great room at Brookes's Subscription House; men sit playing cards at large round tables to the right side of room; a grand chandelier hanging from ceiling; sofas and smaller tables to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great Subscription Room at Brooks's, St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Octr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club),
Subject (Topic):
Private clubs, Interiors, Parlors, Card games, Gambling, and Chandeliers
Three older ladies and one gentleman in military uniform sit at a table playing cards. Speech balloons from the ladies berate him for his lack of card playing skills
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10, 1802, by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
Three older ladies and one gentleman in military uniform sit at a table playing cards. Speech balloons from the ladies berate him for his lack of card playing skills
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10, 1802, by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
In a churchyard four young men, one of whom is a boot-black, play a game of hustle-cap on a tomb; a beadle raises his cane to strike them; in the foreground skulls and bones and an open grave; beyond, the congregation enters the church
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Officials, Shoe shiners, Skulls, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Young adults
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Vir...
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Vir...
Alternative Title:
Prudence produceth esteem and Keep within compass and you shall be sure, to avoid many troubles which others endure
Description:
Title from text above and below circular image at center of design.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and l...
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
