84 results filtered with: Games
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Putti playing in a pond. Aquatint.
Date: [between 1770 and 1790?]Reference: 2475448i- Pictures
The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, a busy scene in the street. Coloured engraving by N. Parr after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770.Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 36966i- Pictures
Children playing with various toys, in the background are paintings of the Creation and the creation of Adam. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1636.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1636Reference: 17735i- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, instructions how to play at all manner of usual, and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, or chess. Also the arts and misteries of riding, racing, archery and cock-fighting. To which is added, the game at basset. With a Discourse of Gaming in general. The Description of a Gaming Ordinary, and the Character of a Gamester. With a song on the Game at Piquet. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd Masters.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: [1710]- Pictures
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Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play dice. Engraving by P.F. Basan after M. Österreich after Valentin de Boulogne.
Valentin, de Boulogne, 1591-1632.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 24560iPart of: Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux de la galerie de S.E.M. le Comte de Brühl- Books
Pin-Ping médecin / texte: Tchang, Mao-tsieou, dessins: Yang, Wen-sieou.
Tchang, Mao-tsieou.Date: [1965]- Pictures
Leuk Baths, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Coloured etching by P.C. Geissler after himself.
Geissler, Peter Carl, 1802-1872.Reference: 20239i- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards; with Variety of diverting Fancies and Tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at All the Games on the Tables. Together with the royal game of chess, and billiards. To which is added, the gentleman's diversion in the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting and bowling.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: 1725- Books
Consult me, to know how to cook : ... on household management and economy ... on diseases and their remedies ... on the games of chess, draughts, &c.
Date: 1868- Pictures
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Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
Nicol, Erskine, 1825-1904.Date: 4 July 1891Reference: 29226i- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards; with Variety of diverting Fancies and Tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at All the Games on the Tables. Together with The Royal Game of Chess, and Billiards. To which is added, The gentleman's diversion in the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, Cock-Fighting, and Bowling.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: 1726- Pictures
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Children playing at creating the effect of a wet day with bellows, watering-can and an umbrella. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.
Havers, Alice, 1850-1890.Date: 1890Reference: 16197i- Books
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Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon. Complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting, at those games, upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1760?]- Pictures
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Bagnigge Wells: the gardens, with people taking tea, playing bowls, etc. Coloured process print after a drawing made in 1830.
Reference: 38747i- Books
Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements / by Rowland Ward, F.Z.S.
Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912.Date: 1910- Books
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Consult me : how to cook... on confectionery... how to brew... on household management and economy... on diseases and their remedies... on games of cards, chess... how to dye... consult me as to married women's property... on the cold water cure, and on a thousand other things.
Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882.Date: [1902]- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at all manner of usual, and most genteel games, after the best method. Viz. I. Ombre, piquet, with a song on the same; lanterloo, whist, and a great variety of other games on the cards. II. The famous game of verquere, tick-tack, Irish, back-gammon. III. Inn and inn, passage, hazard, the royal game at chess, and billiards. To which is added. The gentleman's diversion, in riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting, and bowling. All regulated by the most experienced masters
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon, complete, in which are contained, the method of playing and betting at those games, upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1770?]- Pictures
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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.
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722.Reference: 26876iPart of: Les passions de l'homme exprimées par les satyres- Pictures
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Krishna playing hide and seek with two female companions. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 27850i- Books
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Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder neueröfneter Spielplatz rarer Künste, [Bd. I] erster[-zwanzigster] Theil im welchem nicht allein alle Taschenspieler, und andere curiöse mathematische und physicalische Künste sondern auch die gebräuchlichen Karten-Würfel-Billard-Damen und andere Spiele aufs genaueste beschrieben mit vielen Figuren erläutert werden / [Simon Witgeest].
Witgeest, Simon, active 1682.Date: 1781- Ephemera
Hudson's Dry Soap lathers freely, softens water, and should always be used for washing ... scouring ... cleaning ... / R.S. Hudson.
R. S. Hudson Limited.Date: [1880?]- Pictures
London Ophthalmic Infirmary, and the Catholic church, Finsbury. Coloured engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)Reference: 25526i- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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Hot Baths at Leuk, Switzerland: interior showing patients bathing. Process print after A. Forestier.
Forestier, A. (Amédée), 1854-1930.Reference: 20241i