[Two of diamonds at chess] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Two of diamonds at chess] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Chess-players
Published / Created: [1828?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) clenches his fist and raises a bare leg above the chess-board, kicking his shoe into the air. His opponent holds a cane which may indicate a doctor
Description: Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players.
Dated from ms. note on Lewis Walpole Library impression.
A copy after a 1788 print? Cf. [Chess-players] in the British Museum online catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Ms. note added below image: 1828.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11.3 x 18 cm, on sheet 15 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Chess
Subjects: Chess
18th century
England > 1828
England > London > 1828

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