"Four ladies and two men play cards at a round table lit by two candles. A woman in back view says to a handsome woman next her: "Whom in your opinion Madam, are the happiest couple in England?" The other shows King and Queen, answering, "The King and Queen, Ma'am that's a stop." An elderly woman turns to a man in regimentals with a scarred face: "And do you really think, Major, that Bonaparte means to attempt an Invasion? - pray what is your opinion of him." He displays a knave: "A knave Ma'am, and that's a stop." A young woman says to a fat parson who sits in a wheeled armchair, his gouty leg on a cushion: "What unfortunate Old Lady was that you mentioned just now, Mr Spintext!" He holds the nine of diamonds, intent on the bag of counters, and answers: "The Pope, Ma'am and I clear the Table.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pope Joan
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to: George III< king of Great Britain, 1738-1820 -- Allusion to: Charlotte, queen consort of George III, 1744-1818 -- Allusion to: Pius VII, Luigi Barnaba Chiarmonti, pope, 1740-1823 -- Allusion to: Napolean I, emperor of France, 1769-1821 -- Allusion to: Joan, pope of Rome, fl. 853-855 -- Parsons -- Medical Disease: gout -- Medical Equipment: Wheelchair -- Military Unifroms: Officer -- Playing cards -- Candlesticks -- Furniture: Card table -- Games: Pope Joan., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1805 by Willm. Holland, Cockspur Street, London
Title from item., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 25, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: card table -- Tea table -- Tea service -- Maidservant -- Domestic service: black boy -- Chairs -- Furnishings: carpet -- Window curtains.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A print with the rules of the card game Faro engraved with decorative motifs across top edge. The print has been mounted on sticks of bone to form a fan
Alternative Title:
Regles du pharaon
Description:
Titles in English and French from item., Text below English title: The game of faro is perhaps the most simple & at the same time the most entertaining of all the games of hazard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on bone sticks to form a fan., and Folded to 25 x 2 x 1.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act by J. Cock and J.P. Crowder, Wood Street, London
Title from text above images., Text below title: No. 1. Gaming., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Six designs on one sheet, each individually captioned.
Publisher:
Printed & published at J. Netherclift's Lithographic Establishment, 8 Newman St.
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 April 1787]
Call Number:
787.04.10.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Seven men (three-quarter length) are grouped round a card-table in a Smithfield tavern. One (right), young and innocent, inspects his cards; beside him an older countryman lies back asleep (right), his dog resting his head on his knee. The other gambler (left), holding his cards, looks at his victim. Three onlookers have crafty expressions. A fat man, smoking, approaches with a bowl of punch. In the bar (left) a fat woman chalks up a score. Coins, a watch, and pocket-book are on the table. A broken mirror and a picture of a horse decorate the walls. Beneath the table are twelve lines describing the sleep of 'Old Trusty' while his son is cheated by 'the Harpy-Tribe'."--Biriths Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Countrymen defrauded
Description:
Title from item., Curator's note from British Museum catalogue: The card-playing sharper is a portrait of Rowlandson, the country lad is reputed to be J. K. Sherwin; though this seems unlikely, since Sherwin was then thirty-six, the identification is supported by the self-portrait of the engraver. In 'The Gamesters', a mezzotint by Ward, after Peters, 1786, the card-sharper holding an ace behind his back is Rowlandson [Said to be the Prince of Wales, according to Challoner Smith (iv. 1485).]; the resemblance to the card-player in this plate, and in a mezzotint, 'A Game at Cribbage' ... is convincing., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Old Trusty with his town made friends ..., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: sharpers -- Furniture: card-table -- Furniture: bar -- Countrymen -- Card players -- Barmaids -- Pocketbooks., and Mounted to 38 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Published 10th April 1787 by E. Jackson, No. 14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
Smithfield (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827,, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse),, and Sherwin, J. K. 1751-1790 (John Keyse),
Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of four academics sit at a table playing cards; a fifth stands to the left in front of a screen. A thin serving woman (right) brings in a bottle of wine and a glass of wine on a tray. A portrait of a smiling man hangs on the back wall, along with cloaks and hats. One little dog stands next to the servant; a second dog is on the left
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics, playing a rubber at whist
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally published ca. 1800?, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A copy in reverse of no. 4728 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and On leaf 62 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, and Teachers
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 January 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 59. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two dogs approach the table; on the wall behind is a portrait of Archbishop Synge."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics
Description:
Title from text below image, Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Games: Whist -- Cambridge: Combination Room -- Archbishop Singe -- Christmas., and Mounted on page 59 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs 20th Jany. 1773 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: four dons are playing whist, grimacing at each other; a man standing beside the table holds up his hand spreading his fingers to signal the cards held by a player seated in front of him; an old woman serves wine; two dogs approach the table; on the wall behind is a portrait of Archbishop Synge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 20 January 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4728 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled: "You lie, sir!", "Proceeding to blows", "Friends ending the dispute" and then a larger group of figures with the title "Dispute at cards: ending in a round game". In the second row: "In love I perceive", "Prick'd to the heart. She's gone, she's gone!", "Met to part no more", "O! Thou false wretch", "O, Sophia fairest of women", "How you teaze me Charles" and "I'll seek revenge", and a pair of designs labeled above "The effects of jealousy" and on the left "Now for the fatal blow" and "Keep your distance fellow."
Alternative Title:
Milk Street in an uproar
Description:
Title from text in upper left., Unidentified artist., Date conjectured from that of the published print of the same design., Similar to a print, published by G. Blackman in 1817, and attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue. Cf. Nos. 12955 and 12956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b
A "line and dot" series of caricatures featuring scenes with stick figures (or "pin men"), both male and female, engaged in some form of public violence, arranged in two rows, each grouping individually titled. In the first row the designs are titled: "You lie, sir!", "Proceeding to blows", "Friends ending the dispute" and then a larger group of figures with the title "Dispute at cards: proceeding to a round game". In the second row: "In love I pereceive [sic]", "Prick'd to the heart. She's gone, she's gone!", "Met to part no more", "O! Thou false wretch", "O, Sophia fairest of all women", "How you teaze me Charles" and "I'll seek revenge", and a pair of designs labeled above "The effects of jealousy" and on the left "Now for the fatal blow" and "Keep your distance fellow."
Alternative Title:
Milk Street in an uproar
Description:
Title from text in upper left., Similar prints, also published by G. Blackman in 1817, are attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue. Cf. Nos. 12955 and 12956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 30, 1817, by G. Blackman Junr., 362 Oxford Strt
