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41.
Of carving, cards & cookery, or, The mode of carving at the table : as represented in a pack of

Creator:
Wayland, Virginia
Published / Created:
1962.
Call Number:
UTX885 W39
Image Count:
70
Description:
BEIN UTX885 W39: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Of carving, cards & cookery, or, The mode of carving at the table : as represented in a pack of playing cards originally designed & sold by Joseph & James Moxon, London 1676-7 : together with divers recipes for excellent dishes of flesh, fish, fowl & baked meats collected from 17th century masters at the art of cookery

42.
Over weight, or, The sinking fund, or, The downfall of faro [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
March 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.03.14.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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, and Downfall of faro
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Card games, Horses, Obesity, and Street lights
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Over weight, or, The sinking fund, or, The downfall of faro [graphic]

43.
Playing at put [graphic]

Creator:
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.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Card games
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Playing at put [graphic]

44.
Playing the game at quadrille from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[approximately 1750]
Call Number:
750.00.00.14
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Card games, Tea tables (Tables), Floor coverings, Tea services, Servants, and Women domestics
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Playing the game at quadrille from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens. [graphic]

45.
Pope-Joan [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[November 1805]
Call Number:
805.11.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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...
Alternative Title:
Pope Joan
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1805 by Willm. Holland, Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Card games and Gambling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Pope-Joan [graphic].

46.
Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[August 1820]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 witnes...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Warehouses, Witnesses, Ethnic Stereotypes, Wash tubs, Bathing, Pails, Combs, Lawyers, Brooms & brushes, Trousers, Sewing, Card games, Smoking, Eating & drinking, Gin, Food, Barrels, Eggs, Daggers & swords, and Cannons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]

47.
Quadrille engraved from the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]

Creator:
Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
764.00.00.34+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Floor coverings, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Quadrille engraved from the original painting in Vaux Hall Garden / [graphic]

48.
Recent fracas at Mrs. Roundabout's pharo bank

Published / Created:
[not after 1806]
Call Number:
806.00.00.56
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The interior of a salon, with a game of faro degenerating into a brawl between two women, with one pulling the cap and wig off her opponent while exposing her breast. A male player uses the the distraction to scoop another player's coins into his hat....
Alternative Title:
Recent fracas at Mrs. Roundabout's faro bank
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Salons (Social spaces), Gambling, Card games, Fighting, Seduction, and Wigs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Recent fracas at Mrs. Roundabout's pharo bank

49.
Rules of faro Regles du pharaon. [graphic] =

Published / Created:
April 20th, 1792.
Call Number:
792.04.20.01 Shelved in Object Room C:B
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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.
Publisher:
Published according to act by J. Cock and J.P. Crowder, Wood Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Card games and Faro
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Rules of faro Regles du pharaon. [graphic] =

50.
Sketches of the celebrated skeletons originally designed on the long wall between Turnham Green and

Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.121+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Gaming
Description:
Title from text above images.
Publisher:
Printed & published at J. Netherclift's Lithographic Establishment, 8 Newman St.
Subject (Topic):
Skeletons, Card games, Gambling, and Billiards
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sketches of the celebrated skeletons originally designed on the long wall between Turnham Green and Brentford / [graphic]

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