BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 85: Repaired with tape on verso. Folded and tipped into cardboard folder (21 x 14 cm) with title: Nouvelle chronologie des grands hommes de la Grèce. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Uncut sheet of 25 numbered game cards and a publisher vignette, with the title across the top., "Fabrique un assortiment d'images, jeux instructifs et amusans, à l'usage de la jeunesse et jeux de Société"--Publisher vignette., and On each of the cards are three portraits of historical or mythical figures of the classical Greek period, with explanatory text printed below.
Publisher:
Delion, Rue Copeaux, N°. 15, près le Jardin des Plantes
Grand jeu de l'histoire romaine and Jeu de l'histoire des empereurs
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 92: Folded and tipped into cardboard folder (21 x 14 cm) with title: Nouvelle chronologie de l'histoire romaine depuis Romulus jusqu'à Constantin. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Uncut sheet of 25 numbered game cards and a publisher vignette, with the title across the top., "Fabrique un assortiment d'images, jeux instructifs et amusans, à l'usage de la jeunesse et jeux de Société"--Publisher vignette., and On each of the cards are three portraits of historical and mythical figures from the classical Roman period, with explanatory text printed below.
Publisher:
Delion, Rue Copeaux, N.° 15, près le Jardin des Plantes
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Romulus, King of Rome. and Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
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
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 933: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from case., Date of publication from Keller., French suit system., Composition of deck: 52 (A, K, Q, J, 10-2), joker, advertisement card., Aces indicated by "1"., Courts: B. P. GRIMAUD // PARIS., R-Roi (king); D-Dame (queen); V-Valet (jack)., and Issued in tuck case, blue: OLYMPIC / [olympic rings] / GRIMAUD / PARIS / INDEXEES 53 CARTES.
BEIN ENG141: Imperfect: lacking 9 of Spades, 5 of Hearts. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Original design., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Standard card 24 x 19 mm in upper left corner of each card., and Tax stamp on Ace of Spades, red: [crown, filigree] / VI Pence.
BEIN ENG76: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: Indicated by "I"., CourtCards: Kings, Queens, Jacks with rank at upper left corner., Pip cards: Numbered X-II., and These cards apparently were copied from cards of another Popish Plot pack: they are reversed. Several variants of the Popish Plot pack exist. The workmanship of the present pack is crude, the impression, fair.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Popish Plot, 1678, Great Britain, Politics and Government, and History
"In a large room lit by candles in sconces, a round game is in progress. The guests are ladies, undergraduates, and elderly parsons, some sit in a circle, while others look over their heads. An elderly parson grovels on his hands and knees, putting his head under the petticoats of a lady who sits (left) with her hands raised in surprise. He acts at the direction of a boy (Prince William of Gloucester) wearing the gown of (?) a fellow commoner over a coat with a star, who stands (right) in profile to the left, stretching his right arm with an autocratic gesture; a spaniel licks his feet. A stout parson seated behind him on the extreme left scowls and clenches his fist at the scene. The lady (the Duchess of Gloucester) sits between a fashionably dressed undergraduate wearing the gown of (?) a fellow commoner, and a stout parson who holds up his hands in astonishment. The undergraduates and some of the parsons appear amused, others frown disapprovingly. On the extreme left is a small round table on which are two candles and playing-cards."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Questions and commands, Mistaken road to He-r-f-rd, and Mistaken road to Hereford
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title in lower right: Vide, J-s-s Colle. Cambe., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the see of Hereford -- Horace Walpole owned print (NYPL) -- Jesus College, Cambridge -- Petticoat influence -- Spaniel -- Games: Round -- Tripod tables -- Male costumes: Cantabridgian -- Fellow commoner -- Possible caricature of John Butler, 1717-1802.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, Gloucester, Maria Walpole, Duchess of, 1735-1807, Beadon, Richard, 1737-1824, and Butler, John, 1717-1802
Subject (Topic):
Candles, Candlesticks, Clergy, Dogs, Gambling, Playing cards, Rugs, and Sconces
BEIN GER3S: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Daus of Hearts., German suit system., Composition of deck: 36 (D, K, O, U, 10-6)., Aces: DH: REVIVISCERECVPIVNT; DB, loving couple discovered by third person; DA: LEIPZIG / [lion and heraldic device]; DL, initials on shield., CourtCards: KH, B, L seated. KA, black, stands; UB holds bird in right hand; OL holds suit sign., Pipcards and Jokers: 10s indicated by "X"; vignettes., and Saxon type. Four witty lines of verse comment on the value of each card.
A portrait of Richard Nash in a circle surrounded by playing cards dispersed around the image, with a border comprosed of small squares with (presumably) hands of cards in groups of four and five cards
Description:
Title from text around the portrait of Nash. and Framed to 30 x 40 cm.
"Notorious rakes and gamblers ride or run furiously towards rays descending from a sun in the upper left corner of the design inscribed 'Chance'; its centre, a segment of which is visible, is composed of the letters on an 'E.O.' (roulette) table (cf. British Museum Satires No. 5928). The foremost pair are the Duke of Clarence and the Prince of Wales; the Duke, slightly ahead, wears a chamber-pot on his head marked with an anchor (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7909) and sits behind Mrs. Jordan, who cries, "Push away! that's your sort!" He cries, "Straight Sailing! that's your sort!" Both the horses have human heads; that of the Duke says, "I'm the Sort for Leading; that of the Prince is Fox." The Prince's hat with feathers and the motto 'Ich dien' flies from his head, two women sit behind him; the one holding his waist (? Mrs. Crouch) says, "No Jealous Fitz - that's your sort!" The other, seated behind her, holds the end of the Prince's shirt, she has a large fox's brush and is probably Mrs. Armistead; she says, "Well done Charley! That's your sort!" The Prince says, "I'm the sort for a Widow - she's done over!" Mrs. Fitzherbert has fallen from the horse into a stream and holds out her arms towards the Prince. From the water emerges a post inscribed 'Styx', a bridge or culvert beside it is 'Hazard'. Behind this group the Duke of York runs forward, wearing a hat made of playing-cards surmounted by a teetotum inscribed 'ABC....' In his right hand he holds out a dice-box inscribed 'Oat - ' shaking from it two dice inscribed 'la' and 'nds' (he had recently bought Oatlands); in his left is a tennis racquet. He wears regimentals; the ribbon across his shoulder is formed of playing-cards; at his back is a knapsack full of 'Tennis Balls' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7903) which resemble guineas. He says, "I'm the sort! for running out!" For his gaming see British Museum Satires No. 7301 (5), &c. Just behind him ride three bloods with cropped hair, wearing the high hats, long breeches, and coats with shawl collars hanging away from the neck which such young men affected (see British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c). The one nearest the spectator rides a horse with a bandage over his eyes inscribed 'Lottery Hack'; he looks up, regardless of the fact that he is riding into a pit, and points with his long whip to a castle resting on clouds inscribed 'Illegal Insurance' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7750); he says, "That's your sort - I'm in for it - I shall do the deep Ones!" The other two shout, "Go it! Dam'me! that 's your sort!" and "Dam Trade! Life and a Racer! that 's your sort." Behind this group is a couple on a galloping horse: a stout jovial woman wearing breeches rides astride, waving her whip, behind her sits an anxious-looking elderly citizen, wearing petticoats. He says, "We're the wrong side of Temple Bar, my dear, we are only the sort to be laughed at"; she answers, "Peace good Mr Jerry Candle-wick, its life! and Life and the Breeches! thats the sort." By their horse's head is a signpost inscribed 'Rotten Row', with a pointing hand inscribed 'Hoyle' (on Whist), the vertical post inscribed 'Crim. con.' The last rider is a stout woman, probably Mrs. Hobart (noted for her faro-table, see British Museum Satires No. 8167), on a rocking-horse inscribed 'Faro'; she carries on her arm a wicker cage containing pigeons and says, "Unplucked Pidgeons! that's the sort." In the foreground on the extreme right an elderly Jew sits on a bank watching the mad race with a smile; he says, "50 per Cent! dats de sort! if dey ride to de Devil, dey leave coot Security behind, Ah! Security! dot's de sort." Near him is a card house; at his feet is the Knave of Clubs. In the front of the design and near the Duke of York are other playing cards (left to right): four aces, the two of diamonds, King of Hearts, and (?) Queen of Diamonds, the last two having some resemblance to George III and Queen Charlotte."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Crouch, Anna Maria, 1763-1805
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Social life and customs, Horses, and Playing cards
