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The Bowling. Les Joueurs de Boules 1736.
The Bowling. Les Joueurs de Boules 1736.
D. Teniers inv. Vivaret [Francis Vivares] Sculp.
Rocque Excudit.
Etching. Sheet 150 x 250mm (6 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Peasants playing boules outside an inn.
[Ref: 55612]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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The Diversion of Bowls. Ls Joue de Boules 1736.
The Diversion of Bowls. Ls Joue de Boules 1736.
[after David Teniers the younger.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate, rust spot, creasing.
Peasants playing boules outside an inn.
[Ref: 55613]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Peasants playing bowls outside a village inn]
[Peasants playing bowls outside a village inn]
D Teniers [in plate] C. Weisbrodt 1773.
Etching, platemark 205 x 265mm (8 x 11½"). Proof with small margins.
Etching after one of several scenes by David Teniers the Younger showing peasants playing bowls (another is in the National Gallery). Etched by Carl Guillaume Weisbrod (1743-1806), Stuttgart-born printmaker who studied and worked in France before returning to Germany in 1780.
[Ref: 47998]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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[Bowls.]
[Bowls.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men bowling on rough ground beside a church. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60897]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The White Horse Inn. [&] Four Corners, Played at the Swan, Chelsea. [&] World's End Tavern.
The White Horse Inn. [&] Four Corners, Played at the Swan, Chelsea. [&] World's End Tavern.
[n.d. c.1829.] [&] Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, No.69 St Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1788.] [&] [n.d. c.1828.]
Three images on one sheet; lithograph, engraving and wood engraving. Sheet 483 x 330mm. 19 x 13".
A view of The White Horse Inn on Church Street; [&] a bowling scene at a private club with a door to 'The Tea Room' to the left and men drinking to the side; [&] a view of World's End Tavern, Chelsea which sat on the narrow alley which ran diagonally to the river called Hobs Lane and World's End Passage. It was mentioned in Congreve's play "Love for Lover" in 1695.
Longford [Images of Chelsea:] 540 [&] 124 [&] 539.
[Ref: 25902]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The White Fryers in Gloucester. Aug 24. 1721.
The White Fryers in Gloucester. Aug 24. 1721. Browne Willys Ar. Reliquias sacras d.d. W.s Stukeley.
Stukeley delin. E. Kirkall sculp.
[n.d., 1724.]
Engraving, plate 175 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very large margins.
A view of the Carmelite Friary once situated outside the north gate of the city, with gentlemen playing bowls in the foreground. Published in Stukeley's 'Itinerarium Curiosum'. Very early image of Bowling.
[Ref: 62043]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Quoits] Coits, Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common.
[Quoits] Coits, Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, N.º 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London.
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½"). Trimmed within plate.
Men playing quoits on Kennington Common, with The Horns Tavern on Kennington Park Road behind. The Surrey Cricket Club was founded at the 'Horns' in 1845, with games being held at the nearby Oval.
[Ref: 61772]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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A View of Skittles Ground. Plan of a double Skittle Ground half an Inch to a Yard [image.]
A View of Skittles Ground. Plan of a double Skittle Ground half an Inch to a Yard [image.] [Text:] Rules and Instructions for Playing at Skittles. By a Society of Gentleman. As the Game of Skittles is now a favourite Amusement, a general Guide to remove Doubts, and prevent Disputes, is become necessary. Stimulated by these considerations, a respectable Society of Gentlemen (who are esteemed good Players) have been induced to print the following Rules and Instructions, which thay have themselves often lamented the want of; hoping they will be found generally useful, but particularly to Learners. Rules. I. The Bowler must stand at the mark with one foot, and from thence deliver his Bowl fairly out of his hand; which Bowl must run upon the Board, fixed for that purpose, before it arrives at the Frame...XIII. If you Bowl and Top, for a limited number, at the close of the Game, and throw down more than you want, you must for Nine. N.B. In the Ground where these Rules are observed, a disinterested person is generally appointed to Score the Game, and in disputes, (if the case differs from any of those herein states, which is hardly possible) his decision is, or should be, final. Instructions. Bowling. The Art of Bowling well must be acquired in a great measure through practice, yet a little instruction will soon be found very useful, and a proper attention will enable a Learner to become a good Player...Tipping. When the Learner is going to Tip, he should hold the small circumference or opposite side of the bias in the palm of his hand, grasping it very strong his finger...if not struck hard, without the danger of their rolling, especially if they are tipped down hill; to do which, he must make the Sixth his first Pin. For the benefit of the Learner the Skittles are all numbered in the above Plan. Dimensions of a Double Covered Ground, by which, and the above Plan, either a Single of Double Ground may be formed. aa The whole length of the inclosed Ground 17 yards and an half. bb Breadth of the Ground, from side to side, 4 yards. The Dots shew the curves Line which Bowl should form. The just proportion of a Skittle is 15 inches round in the largest part, and 12 inches high...The Bowl should be 18 inches in circumference; each angle of the Frame for the Pins 3 feet 4 inches....The proportions and distances of ever part, as well as those already described, may be ascertained by the Scale.
Printed for G. Kearsley, at No.46, in Fleet-Street, 1786. __ Price 6d. Plain, or 1s. coloured. --- Entered at Stationers-Hall. A later copy c. 1900.
Coloured engraving with letterpress. Sheet 481 x 311mm. 19 x 12¼".
Rules and instructions for playing skittles. A printed sheet with hand coloured panel of a skittle ground and plan.
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The Parson at his Studies_or_A Skittle Ground the wrong road to a Benifice. vide Anecdote of D.r Willett.
The Parson at his Studies_or_A Skittle Ground the wrong road to a Benifice. vide Anecdote of D.r Willett.
Pub.d Nov.r 1st 1815 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins.
A scene in a pub yard in which a country parson prepares to throw a ball at some skittles looked on by a group of men. The parson discusses with another man that he was recommended to play skittles by his doctor for his health.
BM Satire 12651.
[Ref: 46619]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Skittles.]
[Skittles.]
H. Alken del.t et sculp.t.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, May Market, 1820.
Coloured etching. 195 x 250mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate at top. Small margins.
A well-dressed group play skittles, while a woman serves drinks.
[Ref: 55615]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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[Skittles] La boule qu'autravers de ces quilles on jette /
[Skittles] La boule qu'autravers de ces quilles on jette / Nous est une image parfaite / Du hazard qui regland tout / Laisse ignorer ce luy qui doit rester de bout. 14.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Sheet 100 x 180mm (4 x 7"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere, laid on album paper at corners
A well-dressed group play skittles, while two dogs spar in the foreground.
[Ref: 55614]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Skittles] Games Pl. 1.
[Skittles] Games Pl. 1.
Drawn & Etch'd by W.H. Pyne.
Publishd by Pyne Mar 1 1803. London, Published Nov. 1 1802. by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint. 225 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Creased on left.
From Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain…'. It depicts games of skittles, bowls etc. William Henry Pyne was an English writer, painter and illustrator. He trained at a drawing academy in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.
[Ref: 62453]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Will You have a game of Skittles with us to night M.r Flanagan?
Will You have a game of Skittles with us to night M.r Flanagan? / I would with pleasure M.r Raffata but I am larning the Piano and playing Skittles will spoil the delicacy of my touch.
London Pub.d by O Hodgson 111 Fleet St. [n.d., c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼). Trimmed at top. Right corner missing in lower margin.
A road builder using a compactor worries about how skittles would affect his hands.
[Ref: 61327]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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[Skittles]
[Skittles]
Marco Sadeler excud. Daniel Custodis fcc:
[n.d. c.1660]
Engraving, 17th century watermark, plate 175 x 225mm (7 x 9"), with very large margins. Creasing in centre. Tears to edges.
A view of a village with people playing skittles in the foreground.
[Ref: 62042]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Jeu de quille.
Le Jeu de quille. Pour divertir les Ieunes filles, On voit les Cavaliers francois, Toujours braues toujours Courtois, Et prompts a relever leurs quilles.
P. Schenck fec, excu, cum Privil: Amstelod:
[n.d. c.1720]
Scarce & fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark; Collector's mark bottom right verso; plate 245 x 180mm (9½ x 7"), with large margins.
'The Skittle Game. To entertain the young girls, We see the French Cavaliers, Always brave, always Courteous, And quick to raise their pins.' A group of four young women and men bowl.
[Ref: 62046]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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Tipping All Nine.
Tipping All Nine.
Publish'd 1st Dec.r 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate and to image top right. Slight crease.
Playing skittles in a tavern garden, one man clutching his leg, apparently having been hit by a ball.
[Ref: 34066]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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