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Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

Reference

22993i

The compleat gamester: or, instructions how to play at all manner of usual and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, chess. Also the arts and misteries of riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting. To which is added, the game of basset, never before Printed in English. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd Masters.

Date

1709

Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

Date

1890

Reference

16201i

Just like a bed of roses : Democs and discussion based learning in the classroom / New Economics Foundation.

Date

[2006]

A house in the country; children playing in the garden and on the pavement. Watercolour by J. Millburn, 1968.

Date

20.5.68 [20 May 1968]

Reference

3006292i

Part of

Adamson Collection

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 game. By James Beaufort, Esq. of Cavendish-Square.

Date

1796

Naturliches Zauber-Buch oder neu-eröffneter Spielplatz rarer Künste zweyter Band, in welchem nicht alleine eine Fortsetzung aller Taschen-Spieler sondern auch mathematischer, physicalischer, Mahler und Frauenzimmer-Künste ... enthalten / [Simon Witgeest].

Date

1760-1762

A man sitting indoors with tobacco pipe, jar and beer jug, behind a woman watches two card players. Engraving by Merot, junior, after A. van Ostade.

Reference

24705i

A young woman tries to fuel a fire with bellows, while her younger brother foils her attempts by blocking the valve with his finger. Mezzotint by Wm Ward jr. after Robert Farrier.

Date

[between 1820 and 1829?]

Reference

2498577i

An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.

Reference

11742i