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A real rubber! At whist
Title
A real rubber! At whist [graphic] / M.E. delt. ; G. Hunt sculpt.
Publication
London : Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Manufacture
[London] : [Field & Tuer], 1827 [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : aquatint and etching ; plate mark 32.8 x 33 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
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?]
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
"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.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1827.
Aquatints - England - London - 1868.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
Also listed under
Field & Tuer, publisher.
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