Smithfield sharpers, or, The countrymen defrauded [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Smithfield sharpers, or, The countrymen defrauded [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Countrymen defrauded
- Creator
- Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
- Contributor
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Palser, Thomas, publisher. - Published / Created
- [not before 1799]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd by T. Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge
- Abstract
-
Seven men are gathered around a gambling table in a tavern, two of them playing at cards, others watching. The man on the far right is fast asleep, his dog's head resting on his knee. In the background, a barmaid tallies up the drinks inside a bar. The game is between a shrewd looking man on the left and a tallow youth on the right who is receiving bad advice from a man to his right, with a glass in hand. Behind the youth a broken mirror hangs tilted on the wall. Below it, one of the onloookers is leaning over the back of the settee peeking at the youth's cards. Standing in the center is an obese man holding a bowl and smoking a pipe
- Description
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Title from item.
Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of business at the address in imprint. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 169.
Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Old Trusty with his town made friends ...
State with alternate title and undated. Cf. No. 9672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: sharpers -- Furniture: card-table -- Bar -- Gambling: cards -- Taverns: tavern in Smithfield -- Broken mirror -- Animals: dog -- Countrymen -- Card players -- Barmaids -- Watches -- Pocketbooks -- Pipes -- Thomas Rowlandson as a sharper -- J.K. Sherwin as a country lad.
One of the subjects identified as R.W. King, in an unknown contemporary hand. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 35.8 x 44 cm, on sheet 38 x 47 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 787.04.10.01.2+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Etchings England London 1787 - Material
- etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Sherwin, J. K. 1751-1790 (John Keyse), - Subjects
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11648648
- Object ID (OID)
- 10728298