Several designs, many with captions including a black coach driver; a fashionably dressed young black woman; a mother and child; a child with a doll; a scene in which whites hoe the ground under the watch of a black overseer, etc. In the center, the largest design shows three women playing cards with an Indian man who is smoking a hookah
Description:
Title from caption below central image., Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 4 No. 5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Card games, Cats, Coach drivers, Infants, Mothers, and Water pipes (Smoking)
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 hat suggest better times. A letter on the foreground (right) is addressed: [illegible] CC. Madame de [illegible] rue de Richelieu no. 39.
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on number 31 in this series, which was listed listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 3 June 1820., Series title and numbering etched above image., Printmaker's name etched on table (left) in image: G. de Cari., Between title and subtitle: "Ils sont passés ces jours de fêtes, Ils ne reviendront plus.", and "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 25
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chamber pots, Gamblers, Poverty, Starvation, and Vice
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Title etched below image., Date derived from publisher's date of death., In lower right margin: Nürnberg bei Campe., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Leuck Baths; Spas; Baths.
Publisher:
Nürnberg bei Campe
Subject (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, Health resorts, Therapeutic baths, Eating & drinking, Card games, Bathhouses, and Pools
A young man lounges against a young woman, as they sit on a sofa; she holds his right hand in hers. With the left hand he pours wine into her glass which she holds with her left as they exchange amorous looks. They are both partially disrobed. On the table in front of them is a bunch of grapes and an apple, an upturned glass, and playing cards
Alternative Title:
Love and wine
Description:
Numbered '112' in lower right corner of plate., Below the title, four lines of verse in two columns: Heighten'd by Bacchus see the amourous flair ..., Cf. British Museum Catalogue, v. 4, no. 4524 by Spooner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published June 12th, 1787 by Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Couples, Playing cards, Seduction, Wine, and Eating & drinking
"A group playing at cards interrupted by a beadle and watchmen to arrest them for playing past midnight."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 16., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
BEIN UTX885 W39: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. and "Two hundred seventy-five copies have been produced on Arches heavy buff laid mold-make paper of which this copy is number 101."
Publisher:
Printed for V. and H. Wayland by Carol Allen Cockel at the Raccoon Press
Subject (Topic):
Cooking (Meat), Carving (Meat, etc.), Cooking, Card games, and Playing cards
"Lady Buckinghamshire, enormously fat, is seated in profile to the right in an open chariot which sinks through a rectangular aperture in front of the Weigh-House, its weight being too great for the apparatus for weighing wagons. She throws up her arms and one leg, dropping her whip and reins. The hind legs of the plunging horses are in the pit; they snort wildly; the chariot and horses resemble those of Phaeton burlesqued. On the chariot is an oval escutcheon with four quarterings (cards, dice, wine-bottle, and glass) and the letter 'B'. On the right (behind) are two street-lamps on tall pyramidal posts."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Overweight, or, The sinking fund, or, The downfall of faro, Sinking fund, and Downfall of faro
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men sit on benches at a low table playing cards (putt) as a third person looks on.
Alternative Title:
Playing at putt
Description:
Title etched below image., C. Corbutt is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell., Copy of: The game of putt?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two ladies and two gentlemen play at cards in a richly furnished room while another lady and a gentleman look on. In the background on the left a serving maid prepares tea with the help of a black boy in livery
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Publisher inferred from another print in the series: The king and miller of Mansfied., One of a series of engravings made from the paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: card table -- Furnishing: carpet -- Domestic service: serving maid -- Black child -- Card playing: quadrille -- Reference to Vauxhall Gardens.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Card games, Tea tables (Tables), Floor coverings, Tea services, Servants, and Women domestics
