"Four card-players at a round table in an old maid's parlour, with expressions that indicate a crisis in the game. A monkey sits on the back of the hostess's chair, about to snatch off her cap. A cockatoo is on a high perch before a tall folding screen decorated with prints. A kettle boils on the fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany 4, 1825 by S.W. Fores, Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, Cockatoos, Interiors, Parlors, Mirrors, and Monkeys
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Put -- Male dress, 1799 -- Yokels., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 34 cm., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
An obese old lady is shown seated at a card table, wearing a flowered dress, her hair piled high and topped by a cap from which a spider dangles behind her
Description:
Title etched below image. and Possibly etched by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Nov. 26th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Title from item., One line of text below title: Her counters are always five Guinea Peices [sic]., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to city assembly -- Whist -- Coins: guineas: five-guinea pieces -- Brass candlesticks -- Lighting: candlelight -- Games: whist -- Female costume: hats, 1789., and Mounted to 23 x 20 cm.
Leaf 44. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four elderly whist-players, broadly burlesqued. A grotesque woman (left), holding a hand of five low cards in all suits, exclaims (words below the title): "O Lor' Sir! I've | "Lost my Honor!"; she tilts her head so that the aigrette in her turban burns in a candle (unnoticed by the players). Her furious partner: "Then Ma'am You shou'dn't | "have played the Odd Trick. A dandy, warming his back at the fire (left), stares at the conflagration, and an amused footman capers off to the right, tilting a salver."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1825 by George Hunt, see no. 15005 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 44 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Older people, Candles, Servants, Dandies, and British
"A game is just finished: a pretty elegant girl (right) has nine tricks, and an elderly spinster in old-fashioned dress, with spectacles on forehead, has four. They argue, gesturing with their hands, while the two men watch the girl intently. A dog barks at her. The room is lit by two candles from a sconce. Two pictures are on the wall, an owl in a bush, and a half-length portrait of a man, who seems to be watching the game intently, finger on lip"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One in a series of six prints. Series title varies., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text below image., Seven lines of text printed in letterpress below plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: seamen -- Ships: main deck -- Card-playing -- Dancing: reel -- Musical instrument: fiddle.
"Two men play at a small round card-table, the cribbage-board between them. One (left), fashionably dressed, has thrown his cards on the table, rising slightly from his chair, with a stare of triumph at his opponent. The latter, elderly and old-fashioned, holds his cards, and stares with melancholy surprise at those on the table. A large snuff-box lies on the floor, overturned. Behind them is a folding screen which partly conceals a picture: a man, dressed as a jester, performing a conjuring trick to astonished spectators."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and One in a series of six prints. Series title varies.
"Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 14 March 1783 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 6341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 30, 1802, by Iohn Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
"The fashionable guests, many being probably portraits and almost all elderly and plain, stand in conversation except for four at a card-table in the foreground, and for a military officer (? Prince Leopold) who lounges on a sofa. The room is bare except for a huge pier-glass and for heavily fringed and draped curtains, and for a bust of Napoleon on a pedestal which dominates the guests. An ugly little embodiment of acrid pedantry gazes up at it. There is an elaborate gas chandelier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 3d 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street St. James's