"A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholda...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 11th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (right) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her right. The two men are said to be Thold...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chairs, Floor coverings, Gambling, and Playing cards
"In a palatial room, lit by elaborate cut-glass chandeliers, three games are in progress, one in the foreground, with an officer leaning over one of the women players. Another officer in full dress uniform with sword and plumed helmet admires himself ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Strt. Covent Garden
A presumably incomplete set of ten transformation cards, drawn by Thomas Dyer, with caricatured figures of his family as stated in a 1852 note by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe mounted to the side of the 3 of hearts. Each figure is drawn to incorporat...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dyer, Thomas, approximately 1783-1852, and Dyer, William Charles, 1761-1828,
The sixth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical drawings, Card games, Gambling, and Parables
Three playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn in pen and ink by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures using the shape of the pip, only hearts or diamonds (red watercolor) in this incomplete set. One of the cards (two hearts) featur...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
After William Hogarth's plate 6 from A rake's progress, depicts the interior of a gambling house (Leicester Fields) where groups of men play cards and roll dice, large piles of coins at their sides. The losers are shown in various stages of despair, ...
