Facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities

Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.

Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.

Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.

A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.

A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.

1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour.

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Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.

Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.

A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.

A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.

Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.

Casinos

Images from the collections

Images referencing Casinos

Works from the collections

Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.

Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.

A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.

A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.

Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.

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