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.
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
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 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 7 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 6 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 -- Couples -- Fighting.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 5 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 4 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 supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 3 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 23 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.
