Recent fracas at Mrs. Roundabout's pharo bank
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Description
- Title
- Recent fracas at Mrs. Roundabout's pharo bank
- Alternative Title
- Recent fracas at Mrs. Roundabout's faro bank
- Published / Created
- [not after 1806]
- Publication Place
- England and England London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
The interior of a salon, with a game of faro degenerating into a brawl between two women, with one pulling the cap and wig off her opponent while exposing her breast. A male player uses the the distraction to scoop another player's coins into his hat. Another, who looks like Charles James Fox (a well-known player of faro), has his hand down the front of another woman's bodice
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Approximate date of publication based on Fox's death date.
Mounted on album paper. - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; October 2025. From the Ricky Jay collection.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 16 x 10 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 806.00.00.56
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England 1800
Engravings England 1800 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic)
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Salons (Social spaces)
Gambling
Card games
Fighting
Seduction
Wigs - Subjects
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Jay, Ricky > Ownership
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Salons (Social spaces)
Gambling
Card games
Fighting
Seduction
Wigs
England > 1800
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 991011236432408651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33459939
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