Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 1799]
Call Number:
787.04.10.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven men are gathered around a gambling table in a tavern, two of them playing at cards, others watching. The man on the far right is fast asleep, his dog's head resting on his knee. In the background, a barmaid tallies up the drinks inside a bar. The game is between a shrewd looking man on the left and a tallow youth on the right who is receiving bad advice from a man to his right, with a glass in hand. Behind the youth a broken mirror hangs tilted on the wall. Below it, one of the onloookers is leaning over the back of the settee peeking at the youth's cards. Standing in the center is an obese man holding a bowl and smoking a pipe
Alternative Title:
Countrymen defrauded
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from publisher's dates of business at the address in imprint. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800, p. 169., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Old Trusty with his town made friends ..., State with alternate title and undated. Cf. No. 9672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: sharpers -- Furniture: card-table -- Bar -- Gambling: cards -- Taverns: tavern in Smithfield -- Broken mirror -- Animals: dog -- Countrymen -- Card players -- Barmaids -- Watches -- Pocketbooks -- Pipes -- Thomas Rowlandson as a sharper -- J.K. Sherwin as a country lad., and One of the subjects identified as R.W. King, in an unknown contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge
Subject (Name):
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 and Sherwin, J. K. 1751-1790 (John Keyse),
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),
