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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane." [&] 4."Ruffing A Black Suit"
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature in plate & signed in pencil lower left.]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Set of four chromolithographs on india laid paper, with vignettes of playing cards in the margin and etched remarques lower left. Images 291 x 410mm, sheets 475 x 608mm. Unfaded impressions, full sheets, with occasional spotting, on board.
A fine example of one of the most highly regarded sets of bridge prints. A young couple, clergyman and retired army officer are around the table, and, with the exception of the last, these same characters feature in a charming sub-narrative in the remarques. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
[Ref: 7836] £1,600.00 view all images for this item
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature in plate & signed in pencil lower left.]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Set of four chromolithographs on india laid paper, with vignettes of playing cards in the margin and etched remarques lower left. Images 291 x 410mm, sheets 475 x 608mm. Unfaded impressions, full sheets, with occasional spotting, on board.
A fine example of one of the most highly regarded sets of bridge prints. A young couple, clergyman and retired army officer are around the table, and, with the exception of the last, these same characters feature in a charming sub-narrative in the remarques. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
[Ref: 7836] £1,600.00 view all images for this item
'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane."
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature].
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Three of four chromolithographs. Sheets 510 x 630mm (20 x 24¾.
Three of a set of four plates illustrating a game of bridge, with a young couple, clergyman and retired army officer around the table. This issue was a printed black border around the image with vignettes of the cards in each player's hand and the titles in white. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
See Ref: 7836 for a complete signed set.
[Ref: 59231] £650.00 view all images for this item
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature].
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Three of four chromolithographs. Sheets 510 x 630mm (20 x 24¾.
Three of a set of four plates illustrating a game of bridge, with a young couple, clergyman and retired army officer around the table. This issue was a printed black border around the image with vignettes of the cards in each player's hand and the titles in white. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
See Ref: 7836 for a complete signed set.
[Ref: 59231] £650.00 view all images for this item
Les Soldats en Jeu.
peint par Valentin.
à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils. [n.d., c.1770.]
A rare mezzotint with hand colour. Plate: 380 x 420mm (15 x 16½''). Very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on lower edge, foxing.
A scene showing two soldiers playing a game of cards at a table.
[Ref: 49211] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
peint par Valentin.
à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils. [n.d., c.1770.]
A rare mezzotint with hand colour. Plate: 380 x 420mm (15 x 16½''). Very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on lower edge, foxing.
A scene showing two soldiers playing a game of cards at a table.
[Ref: 49211] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[All Fours.]](jpegs/59289.jpg)
[All Fours.]
[Design'd by W.H. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[Publish'd Mar.h 14th 1783 by J.R. Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, London.]
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into image area, losing title and inscriptions, but keeping the important part of the image.
A satirical scene of a pair of card players, one with a long pig-tail queue, the other in a bob-wig.
D'Oench 214; BM Satire 6341.
[Ref: 59289] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[Design'd by W.H. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[Publish'd Mar.h 14th 1783 by J.R. Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, London.]
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into image area, losing title and inscriptions, but keeping the important part of the image.
A satirical scene of a pair of card players, one with a long pig-tail queue, the other in a bob-wig.
D'Oench 214; BM Satire 6341.
[Ref: 59289] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
The Gamesters. [&] The Fortune Tellers.
Painted by the Rev.d Mr: Peters R.A. Engraved by William Ward.
London Published May 22.nd 1786 by J.R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Pair of mezzotints. Plates: 420 x 440mm (16½ x 17¼''). Trimmed to margins or thread margins, marking and creasing.
A pair of scenes of cheating. The first shows two men playing cards as a third man pretends to help one player while holding up three fingers the other of his opponant's hand. The two players have been identified as Lord Courtenay (the mark) and Thomas Rowlandson (the cheat). The second scene shows an opulently-dressed young woman having her palm read while a young accomplice smiles over her shoulder. The artist is Matthew William Peters (1742-1814), most famous for his provocative painting of a courtesan (known as 'Lydia' in the mezzotint copy). He came to regret his choice of subject, as he was ordained in 1781, becoming the Royal Academy's chaplain (1784-8), then chaplain to the Prince of Wales.
CS 97 & CS 186.
[Ref: 48974] £780.00 view all images for this item
Painted by the Rev.d Mr: Peters R.A. Engraved by William Ward.
London Published May 22.nd 1786 by J.R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Pair of mezzotints. Plates: 420 x 440mm (16½ x 17¼''). Trimmed to margins or thread margins, marking and creasing.
A pair of scenes of cheating. The first shows two men playing cards as a third man pretends to help one player while holding up three fingers the other of his opponant's hand. The two players have been identified as Lord Courtenay (the mark) and Thomas Rowlandson (the cheat). The second scene shows an opulently-dressed young woman having her palm read while a young accomplice smiles over her shoulder. The artist is Matthew William Peters (1742-1814), most famous for his provocative painting of a courtesan (known as 'Lydia' in the mezzotint copy). He came to regret his choice of subject, as he was ordained in 1781, becoming the Royal Academy's chaplain (1784-8), then chaplain to the Prince of Wales.
CS 97 & CS 186.
[Ref: 48974] £780.00 view all images for this item
Pam, Flush and Loo.
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by H. Meyer, 3 Red Lion Square.
Engraved from the original Picture in the possession of W. Owen R.A. 1825.
Stipple, very rare. Sheet size: 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Trimmed at top and bottom inside platemarks.
A scene depicting two young women and a boy playing cards at a table, with a curtain behind to the right, and a landscape in the left background. Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking card game, considered a modification of the game of 'All Fours', another English game possibly of Dutch origin.
[Ref: 34612] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by J. Opie R.A. Engraved by H. Meyer, 3 Red Lion Square.
Engraved from the original Picture in the possession of W. Owen R.A. 1825.
Stipple, very rare. Sheet size: 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Trimmed at top and bottom inside platemarks.
A scene depicting two young women and a boy playing cards at a table, with a curtain behind to the right, and a landscape in the left background. Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking card game, considered a modification of the game of 'All Fours', another English game possibly of Dutch origin.
[Ref: 34612] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Three men playing cards.]](jpegs/34832.jpg)
[Three men playing cards.]
E. Van Hemskirke pinx. / J. Smith Fec. et ex. [1704]
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Fine.
Three men gambling. Cards, dice and coins on the table, score marked in chalk. Broadside on wall behind. Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34832] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
E. Van Hemskirke pinx. / J. Smith Fec. et ex. [1704]
Mezzotint with small margins, platemark 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Fine.
Three men gambling. Cards, dice and coins on the table, score marked in chalk. Broadside on wall behind. Engraved by the prolific early mezzotinter John Smith after Egbert van Heemskerck (1634/5-1704). Born in Haarlem, Heemskerck moved to England in the 1670s. His often satirical genre scenes (Quaker meetings were a speciality), derived from those of Ostade and Teniers, were popular with London engravers.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 34832] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![[Couple playing cards.]](jpegs/23339.jpg)
[Couple playing cards.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching and engraving, with dutch text on verso. Plate 77 x 114mm. 3 x 4½". Trimmed to plate.
A anonymous engraving, with two people sat at a table, playing cards by candlelight; a greyhound sits to the right near a large chest.
[Ref: 23339] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching and engraving, with dutch text on verso. Plate 77 x 114mm. 3 x 4½". Trimmed to plate.
A anonymous engraving, with two people sat at a table, playing cards by candlelight; a greyhound sits to the right near a large chest.
[Ref: 23339] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Card-Players.]](jpegs/34835.jpg)
[The Card-Players.]
D.T.P. J.V.B.F. [ie. David Teniers pinxit. Jan van der Bruggen fecit]
Mezzotint, platemark 425 x 340mm (16¾ x 13¼). Thread margins; good impression.
Men playing cards and smoking in a tavern, after Dutch painter of genre scenes David Teniers (1610-90), and engraved during the artists' lifetime by his contemporary Jan van der Bruggen (1648/9-1690) was an early mezzotinter working in France. This same scene was later engraved by the British collector and printmaker Captain William Baillie.
For Baillie's version of the scene, see ref. 12253. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34835] £360.00
D.T.P. J.V.B.F. [ie. David Teniers pinxit. Jan van der Bruggen fecit]
Mezzotint, platemark 425 x 340mm (16¾ x 13¼). Thread margins; good impression.
Men playing cards and smoking in a tavern, after Dutch painter of genre scenes David Teniers (1610-90), and engraved during the artists' lifetime by his contemporary Jan van der Bruggen (1648/9-1690) was an early mezzotinter working in France. This same scene was later engraved by the British collector and printmaker Captain William Baillie.
For Baillie's version of the scene, see ref. 12253. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34835] £360.00
![[The young man losing a game of cards.] Wat syn wy ... voord beroyd.](jpegs/55346.jpg)
[The young man losing a game of cards.] Wat syn wy ... voord beroyd.
[Engraved by Jan van de Velde II.]
[Amsterdam: Claes Janszoon Visscher, c.1633.]
Etching. 175 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Slight tape stains at corners. Small margins.
A man wearing a plumed hat, holding playing cards in his left hand. From 'The Mirror of Vanity', a series of seventeen plates with Dutch verses by Samuel Ampzing.
[Ref: 55346] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Jan van de Velde II.]
[Amsterdam: Claes Janszoon Visscher, c.1633.]
Etching. 175 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Slight tape stains at corners. Small margins.
A man wearing a plumed hat, holding playing cards in his left hand. From 'The Mirror of Vanity', a series of seventeen plates with Dutch verses by Samuel Ampzing.
[Ref: 55346] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Playing at Cards.
Teniers Pinx.t. Brookshaw fecit.
[n.d., c.1780].
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 153 x 112mm (6 x 4¼"). Small surface mark in upper printed area.
A rustic interior scene with three men playing cards around a wooden table. One, on the right wearing a beret, chooses a card from his hand, whilst another sits opposite him and a third faces the viewer. They are being watched by three others who stand behind them, two to the left in front of an arched niche and one to the right. A tally can be seen hanging from a wooden partition on the right.
Ex CLB ii /ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32979] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Teniers Pinx.t. Brookshaw fecit.
[n.d., c.1780].
Mezzotint with large margins. Platemark: 153 x 112mm (6 x 4¼"). Small surface mark in upper printed area.
A rustic interior scene with three men playing cards around a wooden table. One, on the right wearing a beret, chooses a card from his hand, whilst another sits opposite him and a third faces the viewer. They are being watched by three others who stand behind them, two to the left in front of an arched niche and one to the right. A tally can be seen hanging from a wooden partition on the right.
Ex CLB ii /ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32979] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Card Players]](jpegs/38324.jpg)
[Card Players] Tra i benefizi, che ci ha fatti Iddio, Non e mica il minor quello del vino.
Fran.co Maggiotto Pinx. Peregrinus de Colle sculp. ap N. Cavalli Venetys.
Engraving, platemark 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Very large margins.
Five men around a table, some playing cards and others smoking pipes. A fire smoulders on the left. Engraved by Pellegrino dal Colle after Venetian genre painter Francesco Maggiotto (1738-1805).
[Ref: 38324] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Fran.co Maggiotto Pinx. Peregrinus de Colle sculp. ap N. Cavalli Venetys.
Engraving, platemark 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Very large margins.
Five men around a table, some playing cards and others smoking pipes. A fire smoulders on the left. Engraved by Pellegrino dal Colle after Venetian genre painter Francesco Maggiotto (1738-1805).
[Ref: 38324] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Les Joueurs de Cartes. Dedié à Messire Joseph de Raousset Comte de Boulbon / D'apres le Tableau original de meme grandeur, Tiré de son Cabinet Par son tres humble Serviteur Basan
D. Teniers Pinx. F. Basan Sculp
A Paris chez Basset, Md d'Estampes, rue St. Jacques, No 64 [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 340 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Very large margins. Water staining to edges.
Men playing cards and smoking in a tavern, after the Dutch painter of genre scenes David Teniers (1610-90). Engraved by François Basan (1723-97), an engraver by training who from the mid 1750s on concentrated on publishing and dealing. He also succeeded the great Mariette as the major Parisian print expert, and authored a standard 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs anciens et modernes' (1767, 2nd ed.1789).
[Ref: 38459] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
D. Teniers Pinx. F. Basan Sculp
A Paris chez Basset, Md d'Estampes, rue St. Jacques, No 64 [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 340 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Very large margins. Water staining to edges.
Men playing cards and smoking in a tavern, after the Dutch painter of genre scenes David Teniers (1610-90). Engraved by François Basan (1723-97), an engraver by training who from the mid 1750s on concentrated on publishing and dealing. He also succeeded the great Mariette as the major Parisian print expert, and authored a standard 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs anciens et modernes' (1767, 2nd ed.1789).
[Ref: 38459] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Amusement for the Evening.
[Anon., c.1773]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 100mm (7¼ x 4").
Card game, with a man caressing a woman while looking at her hand. Probably from the 'Sentimental Magazine'.
[Ref: 46563] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Anon., c.1773]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 100mm (7¼ x 4").
Card game, with a man caressing a woman while looking at her hand. Probably from the 'Sentimental Magazine'.
[Ref: 46563] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Quadrille Party
[Anon., c.1774]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 100mm (7¼ x 4").
Four men and women playing cards. Probably published as an illustration to the 'Sentimental Magazine'.
[Ref: 46564] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Anon., c.1774]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 100mm (7¼ x 4").
Four men and women playing cards. Probably published as an illustration to the 'Sentimental Magazine'.
[Ref: 46564] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Breland, or the Prodigal.] Pellicus hinc Modulis...](jpegs/55348.jpg)
[The Breland, or the Prodigal.] Pellicus hinc Modulis...
Jac. Callot fec.
Con: Meyer fecit et excudit. [Engraved c.1680 but much later.]
Engraving. 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"), with very large margins. Impression weak, printer's crease centre of image.
A night scene, with the Prodigal Son playing cards by candle-light, engraved by Conrad Meyer (1618-89) after Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635) .
[Ref: 55348] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Jac. Callot fec.
Con: Meyer fecit et excudit. [Engraved c.1680 but much later.]
Engraving. 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"), with very large margins. Impression weak, printer's crease centre of image.
A night scene, with the Prodigal Son playing cards by candle-light, engraved by Conrad Meyer (1618-89) after Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635) .
[Ref: 55348] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
The origin of Cards Said to be invented to divert the melancholy of Charles ye 6th King of France about ye year 1390 [...]
[Anon., c.1800.]
Manuscript on laid and 18th century watermarked paper, 3pp, 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Glued to album sheet.
Manuscript account of the history of playing cards, the significance of the four suits (diamonds, hearts, spades, clubs), the possible identities of the four kings and queens, and the significance of the jacks.
[Ref: 39671] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Anon., c.1800.]
Manuscript on laid and 18th century watermarked paper, 3pp, 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Glued to album sheet.
Manuscript account of the history of playing cards, the significance of the four suits (diamonds, hearts, spades, clubs), the possible identities of the four kings and queens, and the significance of the jacks.
[Ref: 39671] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Lady Godina's Rout -or Peeping Tom spying out Pope Joan. Vide Fashionable Modesty.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] d: et f:
Pub.d March 12th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street [but c.1830].
Hand coloured etching, 260 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
A fashionable gathering around card tables where 'Pope Joan' is being played. A man uses a candle-snuffer as an excuse to lean over a woman (identified as Georgiana Gordon, Duchess of Bedford) and ogle her décolletage. Most of the women have elaborate feather headresses.
BM Satires 8899.
[Ref: 60484] £450.00
J.s G.y [James Gillray] d: et f:
Pub.d March 12th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street [but c.1830].
Hand coloured etching, 260 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
A fashionable gathering around card tables where 'Pope Joan' is being played. A man uses a candle-snuffer as an excuse to lean over a woman (identified as Georgiana Gordon, Duchess of Bedford) and ogle her décolletage. Most of the women have elaborate feather headresses.
BM Satires 8899.
[Ref: 60484] £450.00
Soldiers Quarreling at Dice. From the Original Picture of the same Size, Painted by Valentini, in the Collection of Sr. James Lowther, Bart. Vol. II. No.40.
Engraved by Captn. Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar.1, 1769.
Etching and mezzotint, paper watemarked. Plate 292 x 381mm (11½ x 15"). Very large margins.
Five soldiers in 16th century dress around a wooden table on which dice are thrown, gesturing and shouting angrily, one to left reaching for his sword, one to the right leaning forward with one knife on his stool.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38187] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Captn. Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar.1, 1769.
Etching and mezzotint, paper watemarked. Plate 292 x 381mm (11½ x 15"). Very large margins.
Five soldiers in 16th century dress around a wooden table on which dice are thrown, gesturing and shouting angrily, one to left reaching for his sword, one to the right leaning forward with one knife on his stool.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38187] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
L'Écarté. Les Salons d'aujourd'hui.
Charlotte n... Lith de Villain r de Sévres N.11.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph, very rare. 240 x 318mm. 9½ x 12½". Trimmed, title cut and pasted.
A salon with gentlemen playing Écarté to the right, with a winged snake-like devil (patterned with the four symbols from a pack of cards) hovering above; to the left, women seated waiting, with cupids flying above. Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France and popular in the 19th century.
[Ref: 19959] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Charlotte n... Lith de Villain r de Sévres N.11.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph, very rare. 240 x 318mm. 9½ x 12½". Trimmed, title cut and pasted.
A salon with gentlemen playing Écarté to the right, with a winged snake-like devil (patterned with the four symbols from a pack of cards) hovering above; to the left, women seated waiting, with cupids flying above. Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France and popular in the 19th century.
[Ref: 19959] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Pharo Table. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Published by W. & J. Stratford, No 112 Holborn Hill, June 1, 1792.
Engraving. 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"), with 4pp. text. Trimmed within plate on left with text. Large margins on 3 sides.
A scene of a Faro card party, with men and women around a table. The text is a warning about sharp practices in apparently genteel drawing rooms and the ease with which huge losses could be accrued. Faro, a hugely-popular gambling game before being superceded by Poker, was notoriously crooked: 'Hoyle’s Rules of Games' once included a warning that not a single honest faro bank could be found in the United States. Famous players included Casanova, Charles James Fox, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
[Ref: 55321] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Published by W. & J. Stratford, No 112 Holborn Hill, June 1, 1792.
Engraving. 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7"), with 4pp. text. Trimmed within plate on left with text. Large margins on 3 sides.
A scene of a Faro card party, with men and women around a table. The text is a warning about sharp practices in apparently genteel drawing rooms and the ease with which huge losses could be accrued. Faro, a hugely-popular gambling game before being superceded by Poker, was notoriously crooked: 'Hoyle’s Rules of Games' once included a warning that not a single honest faro bank could be found in the United States. Famous players included Casanova, Charles James Fox, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
[Ref: 55321] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Indian Rubber _
Pub march 6 1831 for W. Heath at 56 Quadrant.
Etching. 115 x 178mm. 4½ x 7".
Four black figures playing cards at a table. Slavery interest.
[Ref: 15473] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Pub march 6 1831 for W. Heath at 56 Quadrant.
Etching. 115 x 178mm. 4½ x 7".
Four black figures playing cards at a table. Slavery interest.
[Ref: 15473] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Flemish Amusement. The Boorish Family invent Contrivances for Merriment.
A Krause Pinx.t. Wilson fecit.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, No.53, Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 1st February 1771.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm. Laid on thick paper.
Including card playing.
[Ref: 3636] £480.00
A Krause Pinx.t. Wilson fecit.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, No.53, Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs 1st February 1771.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm. Laid on thick paper.
Including card playing.
[Ref: 3636] £480.00
![[Playing cards] Pictorial Cards.](jpegs/18945.jpg)
[Playing cards] Pictorial Cards.
No.26, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pubd. Feby. 1 1818 [101 Strand, London].
Four fanciful playing cards from one plate, stipples with hand colouring. Sheet 235 x 140mm. 9¼ x 5½".
Numbered 'Plate 9, Vol. V.' upper right, from Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 18945] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
No.26, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pubd. Feby. 1 1818 [101 Strand, London].
Four fanciful playing cards from one plate, stipples with hand colouring. Sheet 235 x 140mm. 9¼ x 5½".
Numbered 'Plate 9, Vol. V.' upper right, from Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 18945] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Playing cards] Pictorial Cards.](jpegs/18944.jpg)
[Playing cards] Pictorial Cards.
No.31, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub.d July 1 1818 [101 Strand, London].
Four fanciful playing cards from one plate, stipples with hand colouring. Sheet 235 x 140mm. 9¼ x 5½".
Numbered 'Plate 3, Vol. VI' upper right, from Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 18944] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
No.31, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub.d July 1 1818 [101 Strand, London].
Four fanciful playing cards from one plate, stipples with hand colouring. Sheet 235 x 140mm. 9¼ x 5½".
Numbered 'Plate 3, Vol. VI' upper right, from Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 18944] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
For Exportation Fifty Pounds Penalty if Relanded & Twenty Pounds if Sold or Used in Great Britain.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 102 x 70mm. 4 x 2¾".
A motif used on playing cards by I. Hardy and I. Kirk during the 18th century.
[Ref: 23338] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. 102 x 70mm. 4 x 2¾".
A motif used on playing cards by I. Hardy and I. Kirk during the 18th century.
[Ref: 23338] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![[Playing card wrapper] The Great Mogul.](jpegs/56353.jpg)
[Playing card wrapper] The Great Mogul.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed, losing maker's details, laid on album paper.
A generic portrait of the 'Grand Mogul', a symbol first used for playing card wrappers by Blanchard in 1741 and adopted by others as a sign of the best quality cards. Above the portrait, upside-down, are the Prince of Wales's feathers. A differently engraved version of the same design (BM Banks,97*.3) has the details ''Principal Superfine Large Cards Made by Matthew Gibson Cardmaker to His Majesty'', dated 1804.
[Ref: 56353] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed, losing maker's details, laid on album paper.
A generic portrait of the 'Grand Mogul', a symbol first used for playing card wrappers by Blanchard in 1741 and adopted by others as a sign of the best quality cards. Above the portrait, upside-down, are the Prince of Wales's feathers. A differently engraved version of the same design (BM Banks,97*.3) has the details ''Principal Superfine Large Cards Made by Matthew Gibson Cardmaker to His Majesty'', dated 1804.
[Ref: 56353] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Playing Cards.]](jpegs/30425.jpg)
[Playing Cards.]
E. Tilbargh pinx: Lorenz Quaglio del: 1818.
Early & fine German lithograph, very rare. Sheet 411 x 502mm (16¼ x 19¾").
A rustic interior of men playing cards at a table in the centre; a man and woman stood by a fireplace to the right.
[Ref: 30425] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
E. Tilbargh pinx: Lorenz Quaglio del: 1818.
Early & fine German lithograph, very rare. Sheet 411 x 502mm (16¼ x 19¾").
A rustic interior of men playing cards at a table in the centre; a man and woman stood by a fireplace to the right.
[Ref: 30425] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
Pictorial Cards.
No. 37 of R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c., Pub.d Jan.y 1 1819.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 240 x 150mm, 9¼ x 6". Stitch marks in left edge.
Designs for four court cards: the Queen of Hearts and King of Clubs in Romanesque style; and Eastern Kings of Spades and Diamonds.
[Ref: 27020] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
No. 37 of R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c., Pub.d Jan.y 1 1819.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 240 x 150mm, 9¼ x 6". Stitch marks in left edge.
Designs for four court cards: the Queen of Hearts and King of Clubs in Romanesque style; and Eastern Kings of Spades and Diamonds.
[Ref: 27020] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
![[Men Playing Cards.]](jpegs/35119.jpg)
[Men Playing Cards.]
J. J. Haid et filius excudit A. V. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate: 150 x 230mm (6 x 9").
Interior scene in which several figures crowd around a table a which three men are playing cards.
[Ref: 35119] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J. J. Haid et filius excudit A. V. [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint with very large margins. Plate: 150 x 230mm (6 x 9").
Interior scene in which several figures crowd around a table a which three men are playing cards.
[Ref: 35119] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Queen of Hearts.
F. Rochard. W.H. Egleton.
London, Published July 24, 1852, by Lloyd, Brothers & Co. 22, Ludgate Hill.
Mixed-method engraving with added colour highlights. 438 x 326mm. 17¼ x 12¾".
A young maiden in a hooded cape holding some playing cards in her hands and pointing at the Queen of Hearts.
[Ref: 22729] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
F. Rochard. W.H. Egleton.
London, Published July 24, 1852, by Lloyd, Brothers & Co. 22, Ludgate Hill.
Mixed-method engraving with added colour highlights. 438 x 326mm. 17¼ x 12¾".
A young maiden in a hooded cape holding some playing cards in her hands and pointing at the Queen of Hearts.
[Ref: 22729] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Raffle for the Watch. From the Picture in the Vernon Gallery.
W. Bird, R.A. Painter. G. Greatbach, Engraver. Size of the Picture. 1. FT, 11½ IN. By 1. FT, 5 IN.
Printed by G. Virtue. London, Published for the Proprietors. [n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 247 x 303mm. 9¾ x 12". Small tear/nick along lower edge.
The scene takes place is a country public house, the landlord holds up the watch while the subscribers enrol their names.
[Ref: 25186] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
W. Bird, R.A. Painter. G. Greatbach, Engraver. Size of the Picture. 1. FT, 11½ IN. By 1. FT, 5 IN.
Printed by G. Virtue. London, Published for the Proprietors. [n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 247 x 303mm. 9¾ x 12". Small tear/nick along lower edge.
The scene takes place is a country public house, the landlord holds up the watch while the subscribers enrol their names.
[Ref: 25186] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
A satire on the different sexes.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"). Trimmed to printed border, foxing.
Possibly Americana. A scene in a drawing room: on one side are the young women in their party dresses, with a flock of cherubs with bows above their heads, representing romantic thoughts; on the right the batchelors are fixated on a game of cards, with a demon with a bat's head and wings and coiled serpent's tail, skin marked with the suit symbols, breathing down on them.
[Ref: 57386] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"). Trimmed to printed border, foxing.
Possibly Americana. A scene in a drawing room: on one side are the young women in their party dresses, with a flock of cherubs with bows above their heads, representing romantic thoughts; on the right the batchelors are fixated on a game of cards, with a demon with a bat's head and wings and coiled serpent's tail, skin marked with the suit symbols, breathing down on them.
[Ref: 57386] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Soldiers Quarreling at Dice. From the Original Picture of the same Size, Painted by Valentini, in the Collection of S.r James Lowther, Bar.t
Engraved by Capt.n Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar. 1. 1769.
Etching, 295 x 390mm. 11½ x 15¼". Later issue c.1800. Margins foxed.
An argument amongst five soldiers playing dice. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 12243] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Capt.n Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar. 1. 1769.
Etching, 295 x 390mm. 11½ x 15¼". Later issue c.1800. Margins foxed.
An argument amongst five soldiers playing dice. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 12243] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)