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Images about Casinos

9 images from works
  • 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 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.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.

Works from the collections

6 works

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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.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: [1844] | Reference: 32500i
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    | Date: 1810-1819 | Reference: 33371i
    • Books

    Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas / Natasha Dow Schüll.

    Schüll, Natasha Dow, 1971- | Date: [2012]
    • Pictures

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

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 33367i
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    Dawe, Henry Edward, 1790-1848. | Date: [between 1840 and 1849] | Reference: 32911i
    Part of: Life of a nobleman

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