Covent Garden gaming table [graphic]

Description

Title: Covent Garden gaming table [graphic]
Creator: Hulett, James, -1771, printmaker
Contributor: Dicey, Cluer, publisher.
Published / Created: [1764?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by C. Dicey & Co., in Aldermary Church Yard
Description: Title from caption below image.
Publication date inferred from publisher's address. See I. Maxted 's London book trades.
Ten lines of verse in two columns below title: In picture here, the gaming table view, and all the passions of the gaming crew ...
Later impression by a different publisher. Cf. No. 2828 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Covent Garden: gaming -- Gambling: roulette -- Croupier -- Interiors: gambling house -- Reference to the hazards of gambling -- Furniture: gaming table -- Lighting: candlesticks on gaming table -- Chairs -- Furnishings: curtains -- Brawls -- Male dress, ca. 1746 -- Tricorne hats -- Canes -- Wigs -- Containers: pitchers -- Pocket watches -- Dishes: tankard.
Provenance: Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 38 x 29.5 cm, on sheet 40 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1746
Etchings England London 1746
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1746
England > London > 1746

Access: Public
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