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Backgammon

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  • Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
  • Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.
  • Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
  • Two men and two women sit at a table playing backgammon (trictrac) in France. Engraving, 1715.
  • Five men indoors round a table smoking and playing backgammon, behind a man and women talk. Etching by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade, 1670.
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    Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 24699i
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    Cabinet-making: various examples of marquetry. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 41291i
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    A Dutch man playing trictrac with dice; behind, a man smoking a pipe and another man. Engraving by J. Beauvarlet, ca. 1755, after A. van Ostade.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Date: [1755?] | Reference: 3043039i
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    Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.

    Board, Ernest, 1877-1934. | Date: [1912] | Reference: 45903i
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    Two men playing backgammon on a barrel-table as others watch and smoke. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskirk.

    Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704. | Reference: 24838i
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