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  • Three Chelsea Pensioners, two playing cards. Wood engraving.
  • Fred Barnes and his father playing cards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Fred Barnes and his father playing cards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • University lecturers at Christmas playing cards. Etching after H. Bunbury.
  • Johann Valerius, a man born without arms, holding playing cards in his toes. Pencil drawing.
  • The dance of death: Death sees two players playing at cards. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
  • A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • Interior with two men playing cards and four other figures. Oil painting by Stephen Jenner (after George Morland?).
  • Men sitting around a table playing a game of cards. Engraving by C. Gaucher, 1766, after G. Van Tilborch.
  • A doctor and nurses playing cards in a room with a sick patient. Process print after L.T. Lackernay.
  • Pastimes: playing cards, resting in an armchair, conversation, a man with a flute. Coloured lithograph after H. Monnnier, 1839.
  • 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.
  • A family playing cards: the husband is looking over his wife's shoulder at her cards, the child is smiling but the old lady seems to have fallen asleep. Engraving by John Burnet after himself.
  • Men sitting or lying on the hillside outside the walls of a city, playing cards. Engraving after P. van Laer (?).
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients engaged in reading, writing, playing cards, etc. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Interior of a posada with men smoking and playing cards as others and a mule rest nearby. Coloured lithograph after J. F. Lewis, 1836.
  • A man has his fist raised against another man as playing cards lie all around, a woman carrying a tray recoils in fright. Etching.
  • Henry Sacheverell: nine episodes in his life marked with pips allowing the episodes to act as playing cards. Wood engraving, ca. 1900 (?) after engravings.
  • Four men sit at a table playing cards, others watch as they stand around a fire. Engraving by J.B. Michel after J. Boydell after D. Teniers.
  • Boer War: two wounded men, one Boer and one British, playing at cards in a hospital ward as a nurse looks on. Pen and ink drawing by G. B.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Italian Red Cross Hospital ward, during World War I: bedridden male patients are shown reading, playing cards etc, watched over by a female nurse seated at a small table. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A hand holding 3 playing cards bearing the numbers '14', '12' and '5' within a horizontal chequered border representing an advertisement for an AIDS Helpline in Mexico. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1997.
  • A group of men are sitting around a table, playing cards and smoking, there are empty bottles lying around on the floor and one man has fallen asleep. Etching by S.J. Ferries after Wm. P. Frith.
  • 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.
  • A hand holding 3 playing cards bearing the numbers '14', '12' and '5' within a horizontal chequered border on white; with a warning not to be frightened by false rumours about AIDS; an advertisement for an AIDS Helpline in Mexico. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1997.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: women are playing cards at a table, a man has a bottle stuck on the end of his nose, jockeys ride on rocking horses and a camel looks over pyramid. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1872, after John Gordon Thomson.
  • A hand holds a playing card bearing a hand, the number '3' and 'La Mano'; representing the idea that AIDS is not spread by shaking hands, an advertisement by Conasida. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1996.
  • A skeleton hand holds a playing card bearing skull and bones, the number '12' and 'La pelona'; representing the idea that AIDS means gambling with your life, an advertisement by Conasida. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1996.