"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 arms and one leg, dropping her whip and reins. The hind legs of the plunging horses are in the pit; they snort wildly; the chariot and horses resemble those of Phaeton burlesqued. On the chariot is an oval escutcheon with four quarterings (cards, dice, wine-bottle, and glass) and the letter 'B'. On the right (behind) are two street-lamps on tall pyramidal posts."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Overweight, or, The sinking fund, or, The downfall of faro, Sinking fund, and Downfall of faro
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men sit on benches at a low table playing cards (putt) as a third person looks on.
Alternative Title:
Playing at putt
Description:
Title etched below image., C. Corbutt is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell., Copy of: The game of putt?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two ladies and two gentlemen play at cards in a richly furnished room while another lady and a gentleman look on. In the background on the left a serving maid prepares tea with the help of a black boy in livery
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Publisher inferred from another print in the series: The king and miller of Mansfied., One of a series of engravings made from the paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: card table -- Furnishing: carpet -- Domestic service: serving maid -- Black child -- Card playing: quadrille -- Reference to Vauxhall Gardens.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Card games, Tea tables (Tables), Floor coverings, Tea services, Servants, and Women domestics
"Four ladies and two men play cards at a round table lit by two candles. A woman in back view says to a handsome woman next her: "Whom in your opinion Madam, are the happiest couple in England?" The other shows King and Queen, answering, "The King and Queen, Ma'am that's a stop." An elderly woman turns to a man in regimentals with a scarred face: "And do you really think, Major, that Bonaparte means to attempt an Invasion? - pray what is your opinion of him." He displays a knave: "A knave Ma'am, and that's a stop." A young woman says to a fat parson who sits in a wheeled armchair, his gouty leg on a cushion: "What unfortunate Old Lady was that you mentioned just now, Mr Spintext!" He holds the nine of diamonds, intent on the bag of counters, and answers: "The Pope, Ma'am and I clear the Table.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pope Joan
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to: George III< king of Great Britain, 1738-1820 -- Allusion to: Charlotte, queen consort of George III, 1744-1818 -- Allusion to: Pius VII, Luigi Barnaba Chiarmonti, pope, 1740-1823 -- Allusion to: Napolean I, emperor of France, 1769-1821 -- Allusion to: Joan, pope of Rome, fl. 853-855 -- Parsons -- Medical Disease: gout -- Medical Equipment: Wheelchair -- Military Unifroms: Officer -- Playing cards -- Candlesticks -- Furniture: Card table -- Games: Pope Joan., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1805 by Willm. Holland, Cockspur Street, London
"Italian witnesses, in a large bare room or warehouse, where three are being washed in a large bath by Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Liverpool. The bath is inscribed: 'Waters of Oblivion. Non mi Recordo [sic]--Ministerial Washing Tub--!' The three witnesses are villainous-looking, and coloured brown. Castlereagh empties a bucket over the head of one, saying: "Can the Etheopean change his Colour." Sidmouth, plying comb and scrubbing-brush, says: "Or the leper his Spots." Liverpool turns to a lawyer (right) saying: "I never had such a dirty job in my life." The lawyer, Gifford the Attorney-General, answers: "We must have them perfect in their Story before they go." He holds a document inscribed 'Milan' [see British Museum Satires No. 13755, &c.]. A second lawyer sits at his feet, mending a pair of breeches. He says: "They are truely a filthy set, we must clear them of Vermin." The discarded garments of the men in the tub lie on the ground, with combs, a lump of 'Itch Ointment', and a box of 'Sulphor'. There are also two boxes: one (left) of 'Windsor Soap', the other (right), 'New Rigging from Monmouth Street' (where second-hand clothes were sold). Three ragged ruffians wait their turn, seated on the ground. Two play cards; one says: "Quel Maledetto Sacco"; the other responds "Ah! quel Sacco" (the Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735). On the wall behind them hang 'Italian Masks and Daggers just imported.' A high shelf runs round the room, on which stand a pile of 'Dutch Cheese', bottles of 'Italian Oil' and 'Botled Frogs', casks of 'Shalots and Garlick', 'Sour Grout', 'Portable Soup', 'Salt Herrings', 'Butter', a huge basket of 'Eggs', and three jars of 'Pickle'. By the wall on the extreme right, next the lawyers, is a cannon pointing through an aperture."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 53 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Sidmouth," "Londonderry," "Liverpool," and "Eldon" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1820" written in ink in lower right. Typed extract of five lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1820 by T. Dolby, 132 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826
Title from item., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 25, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: card table -- Tea table -- Tea service -- Maidservant -- Domestic service: black boy -- Chairs -- Furnishings: carpet -- Window curtains.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A print with the rules of the card game Faro engraved with decorative motifs across top edge. The print has been mounted on sticks of bone to form a fan
Alternative Title:
Regles du pharaon
Description:
Titles in English and French from item., Text below English title: The game of faro is perhaps the most simple & at the same time the most entertaining of all the games of hazard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on bone sticks to form a fan., and Folded to 25 x 2 x 1.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act by J. Cock and J.P. Crowder, Wood Street, London
Title from text above images., Text below title: No. 1. Gaming., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Six designs on one sheet, each individually captioned.
Publisher:
Printed & published at J. Netherclift's Lithographic Establishment, 8 Newman St.
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),
Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of four academics sit at a table playing cards; a fifth stands to the left in front of a screen. A thin serving woman (right) brings in a bottle of wine and a glass of wine on a tray. A portrait of a smiling man hangs on the back wall, along with cloaks and hats. One little dog stands next to the servant; a second dog is on the left
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics, playing a rubber at whist
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally published ca. 1800?, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A copy in reverse of no. 4728 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and On leaf 62 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, and Teachers
