A hitt at backgammon [graphic]

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Title: A hitt at backgammon [graphic]
Alternative Title: Hit at backgammon
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 19 November 1810]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Thomas Tegg
Abstract: "A man and woman, fat, elderly, and grotesque, play backgammon, the surface of a round table and the backgammon board forming the base of the design. The woman (right), a harridan, frantic with rage, leans towards the man clutching his wig. Two candlesticks are overturned, the guttering candles broken. A cat miaows at the back of his mistress's chair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.
Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. November 19th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11637 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 193-4.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi, p. 34.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 810.11.19.01+
Collection Title: V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Games
Gambling
Subjects: Games
Gambling
England > 1810
England > London > 1810
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

Access: Public
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