"A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in ...
Alternative Title:
Friendly party in high life Knave wins all
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 31st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
"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 arm...
Alternative Title:
Overweight, or, The sinking fund, or, The downfall of faro Sinking fund Downfall of faro
"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. ...
Description:
Title from text in image.
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
"Five ladies play musical instruments; all stand, except a performer on the triangle who is seated (right) in profile to the left. Next her a vast lady, perhaps Lady Buckinghamshire, raises a massive fist to thump a tambourine. The centre figure, who ...
Alternative Title:
Musical mania of 1799
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
Subject (Topic):
Savoyards, Bracelets, Clothing & dress, Chairs, Cymbals, French horns, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Tambourines, and Women
"Musicians are grouped round the almost spherical Lady Buckinghamshire, who sits at the piano in profile to the right, playing and singing. In back view and on the extreme right sits Colonel Greville, playing a fiddle; from his coat pocket hangs a pap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
"The fat and florid Lady Buckinghamshire, seated at the head of her faro-table, throws up her arms in dismay, turning towards her husband, who enters through a door (left), saying, "The Bank's stole! - we're ruin'd my Lady! - but I'll run to Bow Stree...
Alternative Title:
Rook's pigeon'd Rook's pigeoned
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 2d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Subject (Topic):
Jacobins, Card games, Floor coverings, Gambling, Robberies, and Tables
"The fat and florid Lady Buckinghamshire, seated at the head of her faro-table, throws up her arms in dismay, turning towards her husband, who enters through a door (left), saying, "The Bank's stole! - we're ruin'd my Lady! - but I'll run to Bow Stree...
Alternative Title:
Rook's pigeon'd Rook's pigeoned
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 2d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Subject (Topic):
Jacobins, Card games, Floor coverings, Gambling, Robberies, and Tables
