BEIN SPA10: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from wrapper., Latin/Italo-Spanish suit system., Type: Cadiz., Composition of deck: 48 [A, K, C, J, 9-2]., Issued in wrapper: blue and gold: LA CRIOLLA / MARCA REGISTRADA / CLASE PRIMERA / AVISO / MARCA: LA CRIOLLA:., Tax stamp on 5 of Swords, purple: TIMBRE DEL ESTADO / [heraldic device] / EXPORTACION., Aces: AD: SEGUNDO / DE / OLEA., CourtCards: CC: AHI VÁ., and PipCards and Jokers: 6S: VITELA DE HILO; 5S: SEGUNDO / DE OLEA / CADIZ; 8D: VITELA SUPERIOR-OLEA; 7D: No. 5; 4D: LA CRIOLLA / [woman with hat] / MARCA REGISTRADA; 2D: 1898 CADIZ 1898; 4C: LEGITIMA / DE / SEGUNDO / DE / OLEA / CADIZ; 2C: SEGUNDO DE OLEA.
BEIN FRAadvertisement62: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. and The poster presents four aces with quotations and illustrations of Jeanne d'Arc, Vercingetorix, Bonaparte, and Boulanger. A symbol appropriate to each figure is placed in the upper right hand corner of each card.
Publisher:
A. Clavel, 89, cité d'Hauteville
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431, Vercingetorix, Chief of the Arverni, -46 B.C., Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Boulanger, Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie, 1837-1891
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton holding an arrow, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item. and Date supplied by curator.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Memento mori, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, Pride, and Skeletons
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item., Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, and Pride
Title from item., 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: Domestic service: household servants -- Card games: loo -- Fireplaces -- Wine bottles -- Kitchen interiors., and Matted to 41 x 56 cm.
A young man lounges against a young woman, as they sit on a sofa; she holds his right hand in hers. With the left hand he pours wine into her glass which she holds with her left as they exchange amorous looks. They are both partially disrobed. On the table in front of them is a bunch of grapes and an apple, an upturned glass, and playing cards
Alternative Title:
Love and wine
Description:
Numbered '112' in lower right corner of plate., Below the title, four lines of verse in two columns: Heighten'd by Bacchus see the amourous flair ..., Cf. British Museum Catalogue, v. 4, no. 4524 by Spooner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published June 12th, 1787 by Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Couples, Playing cards, Seduction, Wine, and Eating & drinking
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., First of two plates on leaf 44., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title engraved below image., Description based on imperfect copy; sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., First published as no. 22 in a series by M. Darly, Decr. 1, 1773. Original title: Macaronies drawn after the life. Cf. No. 4645 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: hanging bookshelf -- Furniture: table -- Pictures amplifying subject: horse racing -- Books: allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Books: allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: country church -- Tools: spade.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Sayer & Bennett
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
