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Published / Created:: [1828?]
Call Number:: 828.00.00.75
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Chess
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Two of diamonds at chess] [graphic].