Private amusement [graphic].

Description

Title: Private amusement [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 1st 1786, by 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: Title etched below image.
Artist attribution from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue of an earlier state dated 1781, with a different title. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 5928.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.3 x 26.2 cm.
Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Etchings England London 1786
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gamblers
Gambling
Subjects: Gamblers
Gambling
England > 1781
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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