A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation, and imprint create the first external page; opposite is the nine of diamonds creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page'. The image shows a battlefield (Culloden?) with a mountain in the background and part of a large building visible on the right. The commanding officer in the center (the Duke of Cumberland?) points with a baton towards the battle raging on the left while looking back from his horse at group of women in Scottish garb gathered in front of the building on the right, two of them holding swords in raised hands. In the foreground on the left, a defeated Scot hs fallen on the ground and under the hooves of the officer's horse. To his right, a woman sits on the ground holding a military drum. The verse begins as follows: Lady Anne makes her compliments on ye occasion, / Of our martial young hero's deliv'ring the nation ...
Alternative Title:
New c-t th--ksg----g
Description:
Title from item., Possibly engraved by George Bickham the elder (1684?-1758?)., Publisher identified from address., Two lines of quotation below title: Of old things like these were done at St. P----- [i.e., Paul's] now our praises resound at H-y [i.e., Hay] M-rk-t [i.e., Market] balls ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Balls: reference to Haymarket -- Battles -- Scots.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation, and imprint create the first external page; opposite is the nine of diamonds creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page'. The image shows a battlefield (Culloden?) with a mountain in the background and part of a large building visible on the right. The commanding officer in the center (the Duke of Cumberland?) points with a baton towards the battle raging on the left while looking back from his horse at group of women in Scottish garb gathered in front of the building on the right, two of them holding swords in raised hands. In the foreground on the left, a defeated Scot hs fallen on the ground and under the hooves of the officer's horse. To his right, a woman sits on the ground holding a military drum. The verse begins as follows: Lady Anne makes her compliments on ye occasion, / Of our martial young hero's deliv'ring the nation ...
Alternative Title:
New c-t th--ksg----g
Description:
Title from item., Possibly engraved by George Bickham the elder (1684?-1758?)., Publisher identified from address., Two lines of quotation below title: Of old things like these were done at St. P----- [i.e., Paul's] now our praises resound at H-y [i.e., Hay] M-rk-t [i.e., Market] balls ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Balls: reference to Haymarket -- Battles -- Scots.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation, and imprint create the first external page; opposite is the nine of diamonds creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page'. The image shows a battlefield (Culloden?) with a mountain in the background and part of a large building visible on the right. The commanding officer in the center (the Duke of Cumberland?) points with a baton towards the battle raging on the left while looking back from his horse at group of women in Scottish garb gathered in front of the building on the right, two of them holding swords in raised hands. In the foreground on the left, a defeated Scot hs fallen on the ground and under the hooves of the officer's horse. To his right, a woman sits on the ground holding a military drum. The verse begins as follows: Lady Anne makes her compliments on ye occasion, / Of our martial young hero's deliv'ring the nation ...
Alternative Title:
New c-t th--ksg----g
Description:
Title from item., Possibly engraved by George Bickham the elder (1684?-1758?)., Publisher identified from address., Two lines of quotation below title: Of old things like these were done at St. P----- [i.e., Paul's] now our praises resound at H-y [i.e., Hay] M-rk-t [i.e., Market] balls ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Balls: reference to Haymarket -- Battles -- Scots.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the last, external page; opposite is an ace of hearts as the first, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a lady in a large hoop-petticoat standing by a dressing table in an elegant room and ordering out of the room a dwarfish man, probably a servant, with a cap in one hand and a playing card with a red letter 'A' in another. He is leaving the room. Among the paintings is a large portrait of Cupid. Several books are on a stool near the door and on the floor next to the stool lies a volume of 'Rochester's Poems'. The verse begins as follows: Sir Francis, my lady & both the Miss D---nts / Sincerely return Lady Dorothy's compliments ...
Description:
Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771) in 1746?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the last, external page; opposite is an ace of hearts as the first, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a lady in a large hoop-petticoat standing by a dressing table in an elegant room and ordering out of the room a dwarfish man, probably a servant, with a cap in one hand and a playing card with a red letter 'A' in another. He is leaving the room. Among the paintings is a large portrait of Cupid. Several books are on a stool near the door and on the floor next to the stool lies a volume of 'Rochester's Poems'. The verse begins as follows: Sir Francis, my lady & both the Miss D---nts / Sincerely return Lady Dorothy's compliments ...
Description:
Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771) in 1746?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the last, external page; opposite is an ace of hearts as the first, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a lady in a large hoop-petticoat standing by a dressing table in an elegant room and ordering out of the room a dwarfish man, probably a servant, with a cap in one hand and a playing card with a red letter 'A' in another. He is leaving the room. Among the paintings is a large portrait of Cupid. Several books are on a stool near the door and on the floor next to the stool lies a volume of 'Rochester's Poems'. The verse begins as follows: Sir Francis, my lady & both the Miss D---nts / Sincerely return Lady Dorothy's compliments ...
Description:
Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771) in 1746?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of spades creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a fashionably dressed lady in an elegant large room. She is handing a card, ace of spades, to a dwarfish man, probably a servant who is holding a jockey hat in his left hand. The verse begins as follows: Lady Dorothy Drum sends her compliments to Sr. Francis, my lady, and both the Miss D---nts ...
Description:
Title from cover., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of spades creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a fashionably dressed lady in an elegant large room. She is handing a card, ace of spades, to a dwarfish man, probably a servant who is holding a jockey hat in his left hand. The verse begins as follows: Lady Dorothy Drum sends her compliments to Sr. Francis, my lady, and both the Miss D---nts ...
Description:
Title from cover., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of spades creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows a fashionably dressed lady in an elegant large room. She is handing a card, ace of spades, to a dwarfish man, probably a servant who is holding a jockey hat in his left hand. The verse begins as follows: Lady Dorothy Drum sends her compliments to Sr. Francis, my lady, and both the Miss D---nts ...
Description:
Title from cover., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
publish'd according to act of Parliamt. May 10th 1746.
Call Number:
746.05.10.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of clubs creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows three ladies gathered around a table in an elegant room with a view through a large window on another townhouse across the street. The lady seated on the left hands an ace of clubs to a dwarfish man, probably a servant. The two ladies on the right appear to examine cards on the table, the top of which is hidden from view. One of them holds up another ace of clubs. The verse begins as follows: Lady D--t & her daughters were all gone from home, when the card was deliver'd from dear Lady Drum ...
Description:
Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Literature: quotation from The Beggar's opera by John Gay, 1685-1732.
