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1.
A cribbage party in St. Giles's disturbed by a press gang [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 26, 1787.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Holland, printseller, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Card games and Fighting
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A cribbage party in St. Giles's disturbed by a press gang [graphic].

2.
A game at put in a country alehouse [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 August 1799]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chairs, Dogs, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Tables, Tableware, and Taverns (Inns)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A game at put in a country alehouse [graphic]

3.
A modern antique [graphic]

Published / Created:
[26 November 1782]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese old lady is shown seated at a card table, wearing a flowered dress, her hair piled high and topped by a cap from which a spider dangles behind her
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Nov. 26th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Card games and Spiders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A modern antique [graphic]

4.
A ruse a ruse, or, Symptoms of legerdemain [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
837.00.00.44
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Men are sitting around a table playing cards, one is looking at his cards under the table and two others are having a discussion
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of legerdemain
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, 41, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Amcotts-Ingilby, William, Sir, 1783-1854 and Fitzgerald-de Ros, Henry William, 1793-1839
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Tables, Smoking, and Cheating
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A ruse a ruse, or, Symptoms of legerdemain [graphic]

5.
All fours [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 March 1783]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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 wi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 14th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Card games
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > All fours [graphic]

6.
Banco to the knave [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 April 1782]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Twenty-six members of the old and new ministries sit around a card table; North and Fox (the latter with a fox's head) appearing most prominently, together with Thurlow, Grey Cooper, the Duke of Richmond, John Dunning, Wilkes, Barré, and John Cavendi...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 118 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cooper, Grey, Sir, ca. 1726-1801, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politics and government, Card games, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Banco to the knave [graphic].

7.
Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 March 1791]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a le...
Alternative Title:
Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

8.
Christmas academicks, playing a rubber at whist [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1803]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of four academics sit at a table playing cards; a fifth stands to the right in front of an open door. A thin serving woman (left) brings in a bottle of wine and a glass of wine on a tray. A portrait of a smiling man hangs on the back wall, on ...
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics, playing a rubber at whist
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 April, 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, and Teachers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Christmas academicks, playing a rubber at whist [graphic]

9.
Gambling in the mines

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 393 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two scenes of gambling at cards, arranged vertically. In the top scene, labeled "Monte," a group of miners sits around a table while one man deals to another, with many other miners milling in the background. In the bottom scene, labeled "Faro," two g...
Alternative Title:
Gambling in the mines : monte, faro
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Lith & published by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Card games, Cardsharping, and Gold miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gambling in the mines

10.
Gambling in the mines

Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 393 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two scenes of gambling at cards, arranged vertically. In the top scene, labeled "Monte," a group of miners sits around a table while one man deals to another, with many other miners milling in the background. In the bottom scene, labeled "Faro," two g...
Alternative Title:
Gambling in the mines : monte, faro
Description:
Title from caption at top of sheet.
Publisher:
Lith & published by Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Card games, Cardsharping, and Gold miners
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gambling in the mines

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