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The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking by a barrel table and playing cards by the fire. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after D. Teniers.
David Teniers the YoungerReference: 26831i
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Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: 1 November 1813Reference: 24833i
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Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: Publish'd 23 Dec.r 1771Reference: 24736i
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The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 24726i
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Five men sit indoors smoking and drinking, others play cards. Engraving, mid-19th century, by W. French after D. Teniers.
David Teniers the YoungerReference: 24834i
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A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
Hablot Knight BrowneDate: 1800-1899Reference: 33355i
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Five men gather round a table to play cards, drink and smoke in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after D. Teniers, the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerReference: 24735i
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A wicked pack of cards : the origins of the occult tarot / Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett.
Decker, RonaldDate: [1996]
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The art of play : board and card games in India / edited by Andrew Topsfield.
Date: [2006]
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Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26899i
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Cabinet-making: decorative borders. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
Whitaker, H., active 1848.Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 41325i
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By the Queen, a proclamation, for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of vice, prophaneness, and immorality.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1702-1707 : Anne)Date: 1702
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A man sits at a table with playing cards and drink in hand, his wife threatens him as his playing partner makes his departure. Engraving by F. Basan after Dumesnil, junior.
Dumesnil, Pierre-Louis, the younger, 1698-1781.Reference: 26859i
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Recherches historiques et littéraires sur les danses des morts et sur l'origine des cartes à jouer : ouvrage orné de cinq lithographies et de vignettes / Par Gabriel Peignot.
Gabriel PeignotDate: 1826
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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26036i
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Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
Claude GillotReference: 26876i
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While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.
James GillrayDate: Feb. 2nd 1797Reference: 28524i
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A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27617i
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Five men in a smoke den smoke and drink as, in the background, others play cards. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1840, after D. Teniers.
David Teniers the YoungerReference: 25443i
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A family playing a game of cards on a drum; one man is wearing part of a suit of armour, the other, a wide-brimmed hat with feathers in it. Gouache.
Reference: 35116i
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Six figures passing the time with various entertainments. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, 1771, after G.M. Kraus.
Georg Melchior KrausDate: 1st. February 1771Reference: 131i
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Two men play cards at a table as others watch and smoke by the fire. Engraving by J. Michel, c. 1778, after J. Boydell after D. Teniers, the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: 1 December 1778Reference: 24737i
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Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677264i
Ephemera
Progressive whist ... : Kolynos dental cream contains no grit of any kind to injure the enamel of the teeth ... / Kolynos Incorporated.
Date: [between 1930 and 1935?]
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A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
Henry DaweDate: [between 1840 and 1849]Reference: 32911i