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Chess sets

Images

  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

    | Date: [C. 1800] | Reference: 16164i
    • Pictures

    An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.

    Gold, Charles, Captain. | Date: 1 November 1804 | Reference: 24878i
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    An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.

    Gold, Charles, Captain. | Date: 1 November 1804 | Reference: 25290i
    • 3-D Objects

    Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 553759i
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