Title from caption below image., Publication date inferred from publisher's address. See I. Maxted 's London book trades., Ten lines of verse in two columns below title: In picture here, the gaming table view, and all the passions of the gaming crew ..., Later impression by a different publisher. Cf. No. 2828 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Covent Garden: gaming -- Gambling: roulette -- Croupier -- Interiors: gambling house -- Reference to the hazards of gambling -- Furniture: gaming table -- Lighting: candlesticks on gaming table -- Chairs -- Furnishings: curtains -- Brawls -- Male dress, ca. 1746 -- Tricorne hats -- Canes -- Wigs -- Containers: pitchers -- Pocket watches -- Dishes: tankard., Watermark: Britannia in crowned circle. Countermark: W Quel[...]., and Mounted to 47 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Printed by C. Dicey & Co., in Aldermary Church Yard
publish'd May [the] 27th 1742, according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
742.05.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Owen Farrel in Covent Garden, full length, walking to right, glancing towards front, with hat in his right hand and staff in the left; behind him two children gesture towards him and a dog yaps between his feet at another; a woman with a wheelbarrow, another man and a boy on the right, turning and exclaiming to their left; St Paul's Church behind them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description of life and person of Owen Farrel below image: He was born in the county of Caven & in [the] year 1716 was footman to a colonel at Dublin ..., Dedicated by the printmaker to Cromwell Mortimer, M.D., "Price 1 s.", and Mounted to 41 x 26 cm.
