Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 8 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 9 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below image: A fool to pleasure yet a slave to fame, say what can cause such impotence of mind? ..., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image., and Temporary local subject terms: Monkeys -- Animals in human situations.
Publisher:
Published 1828 by Moon, Boys, & Graves, 6 Pall Mall
Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) clenches his fist and raises a bare leg above the chess-board, kicking his shoe into the air. His opponent holds a cane which may indicate a doctor
Alternative Title:
Chess-players
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players., Dated from ms. note on Lewis Walpole Library impression., A copy after a 1788 print? Cf. [Chess-players] in the British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note added below image: 1828.
