All fours [graphic]

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Title: All fours [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [30 March 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Marh. 30, 1802, by Iohn Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Abstract: "Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 14 March 1783 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 6341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Watermark.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 31.9 x 39 cm, on plate 34.1 x 40 cm, on sheet 36 x 55 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Etchings England London 1802
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Card games
Subjects: Card games
England > 1783
England > London > 1802

Access: Public
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