Two-penny-whist [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Two-penny-whist [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1796?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (right) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her right. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, [or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the printseller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer, a picture-dealer and restorer. A scene in Bond Street, shortly before the removal to St. James's Street. This print appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather',"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Copy in reverse. Cf. No. 8885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
No. 4 in an album of 10 prints.
Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering. - Provenance
- Given to the Lewis Walpole Library by Shepard Krech in memory of Annie Burr Lewis who died 9 May 1959; May 1959; With the bookplate of Shepard Krech, engraved by E.B. Bird.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 39 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 C22 781
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Card games
Chairs
Floor coverings
Gambling
Playing cards - Subjects
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Card games
Chairs
Floor coverings
Gambling
Playing cards
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9474834
- Object ID (OID)
- 16874333
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