Whole length portrait of a man with a dejected expression; his head is turned in profile to left. In his right hand is a money bag, and in his left a paper: "Scotch Bill for 10,000L". The four dice indicate that he is Alexander Fordyce, the most activ...
Alternative Title:
Fordyce macaroni gambler and Macaroni gambler
Description:
Title etched below image; four dice are depicted, suggesting the words "four dice" or the name "Fordyce".
Leaf 77. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Whole length portrait of a man with a dejected expression; his head is turned in profile to left. In his right hand is a money bag, and in his left a paper: "Scotch Bill for 10,000L". The four dice indicate that he is Alexander Fordyce, the most activ...
Alternative Title:
Fordyce macaroni gambler and Macaroni gambler
Description:
Title etched below image; four dice are depicted, suggesting the words "four dice" or the name "Fordyce".
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 4 of A harlot's progress: A scene in Bridewell prison with Moll Hackabout and the other inmates beating hemp under the supervision of a stern warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but ...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 4, In Bridewell beating hemp, and Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 10th June 1774.
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.06.10.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on an unlucky gambler: a man standing facing to left looking dejected with his hands in his breeches pockets and a riding whip under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
An emaciated women sits in a bed playing cards. Her clothes and sheets have tears and holes; the wallpaper is falling off the walls. Under her bed is a used chamber pot and to the left a table with shoes and an umbrella. An elegant coat, dress, and ha...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 25
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chamber pots, Gamblers, Poverty, Starvation, and Vice
Gamblers with expressions of anxiety and despair sit or stand around an octagon-shaped table. One man slumps in his chair, asleep and with his purse empty. One man resembles Captain Topham; others may be caricatures as well. In the center of the table...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Copy (not reversed) of the first state of Plate 6th of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 137): Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice; behind him a chaotic group of ...
Alternative Title:
Ruined at a gaming table, Rake's progress. Plate 6, and If mortal peace of mind be worth your care ...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
