Private amusement [graphic].Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist[1 January 1786]engGamblers 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 oddTitle 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.