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An address to persons of fashion, containing some particulars relating to balls: and a few occasional hints concerning play-houses, card-tables, &c. In which is introduced the character of Lucinda, a lady of the very best fashion, and of most extraordinary piety. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]
Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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Six figures passing the time with various entertainments. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, 1771, after G.M. Kraus.
Kraus, Georg Melchior, 1737-1806.Date: 1st. February 1771Reference: 131i- Pictures
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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.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1 December 1778Reference: 24737i- Pictures
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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?]- Pictures
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A nobleman losing money playing cards in a grandly-appointed gaming house. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
Dawe, Henry Edward, 1790-1848.Date: [between 1840 and 1849]Reference: 32911iPart of: Life of a nobleman- Pictures
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Six men play cards and smoke outside a country inn with a castle in the distance. Etching by B. Chiboust, mid-17th century, after D. Teniers (?).
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 24836i- Books
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Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
Hooper, William, M.D.Date: 1787- Books
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Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, ... In which are also contained, the method of betting at those games ... Including the laws of the several games, .. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq;
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1779- Pictures
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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26026iPart of: The drunkard's children- Pictures
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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.
B., G., active 1900.Reference: 23301i- Pictures
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A man has his fist raised against another man as playing cards lie all around, a woman carrying a tray recoils in fright. Etching.
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The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by P. Moitte, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 24728i- Books
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The academy of play; containing a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, relative to the following games, viz. Picquet, Quadrille, Ombre, Quintille, Piquemdrill, Imperial, The Reverse, Papillon, L'Ambigu, Commerce, Tontine, Lottery, Ma Commere, La Mariée, Triomphe, The Beast, La Mouche, Man D'Auvergne, The Farm, The Game of Hoc, L'Emprunt, Le Poque, Romestecq, Sizette, Guinguette, Le Sixte, Vingt-Quatre, La Belle, Gillet, Cul-Bas, The Cuckoo, Brusquembille, The comet. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
Bellecour, abbé.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]- Pictures
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The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1 July 1829Reference: 26477i- Pictures
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The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813.Reference: 26238i- Books
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The academy of play, containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, Relative to The following Games, viz. Piquet, Quadrill, Ombre, Quintill, Piquemdrill, Imperial, The Reverse Papillon, L'Ambigu, Commerce, Tontine. Lottery, Ma Commere La Mariée, Triomphe, Tue Beast, La Mouche, Man D'Auvergne, The Farm. The Game of Hoc, L'Emprunt, Le Poque, Romestecq, Sizette, Guinguette, Le Sixte, Vingt-Quatre, La Belle, Gillet, Cul Bas, The Cuckoo, Brusquembille, The Comet. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
Bellecour, abbé.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, back-gammon, chess, billiards and tennis. With the established rules of each game. By James Beaufort, Esq. Of Cavendish-Square.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: a table for card games. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
Whitaker, H., active 1848.Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 41321i- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, billiards, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard, and lansquenet. In which are also contained the method of betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist ... tennis. ... By James Beaufort, ...
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1775- Pictures
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An all-night gambling party breaks up at four o'clock in the morning: one man says he has lost his last twenty francs. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824.
Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866.Date: [1824]Reference: 33351i