Private amusement [graphic].

Description

Title: Private amusement [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022330
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97860707
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Published / Created: 1786 January 1
Copyright Date: [1 January 1786]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: Gamblers with expressions of anxiety and despair sit or stand around an octagon-shaped table. One man slumps in his chair, asleep and with his purse empty. One man resembles Captain Topham; others may be caricatures as well. In the center of the table is a circular roulette mechanism with the letters E and O for even and odd.
Description: Artist attribution from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue of an earlier state dated 1781, with a different title. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 5928.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1786.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1781.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-LW
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97860707
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Gamblers.
Gambling.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7066
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 180