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10. Two-penny-whist [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1796?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C22 781
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games, Chairs, Floor coverings, Gambling, and Playing cards
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Two-penny-whist [graphic].
11. Warley ho [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
- Published / Created:
- [1782?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C22 781
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A couple of equestrian riders in Essex Warley Heath. The woman rides side-saddle; her companion follows behind struggling to control his horse and remain astride
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Reduced and reversed copy of no. 4761 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., No. 2 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Horseback riding
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Warley ho [graphic]
