Skill games using cue stick to strike billiard balls
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![The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0013738/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0011969/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
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An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 11742i
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A doctor reading the 'Lancet' in a gentleman's club: another member states it is boring, and suggests they play billiards which the doctor would find more boring. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1883Reference: 14280i
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Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1729Reference: 25667i
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An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].
Reference: 18029i
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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.
Vizetelly, Frederick, active 1860.Date: 1860Reference: 39258i