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

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690
    Reference
    22993i
    • Pictures
  • 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.

    • Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
    Date
    1709
    • Books
    • Online
  • Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

    • Havers, Alice, 1850-1890
    Date
    1890
    Reference
    16201i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Just like a bed of roses : Democs and discussion based learning in the classroom / New Economics Foundation.

    • New Economics Foundation
    Date
    [2006]
    • Books
  • A house in the country; children playing in the garden and on the pavement. Watercolour by J. Millburn, 1968.

    • Millburn, Joan, active approximately 1968.
    Date
    20.5.68 [20 May 1968]
    Reference
    3006292i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
    • Pictures
  • 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.

    • Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
    Date
    1796
    • Books
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  • 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].

    • Witgeest, Simon
    Date
    1760-1762
    • Books
  • 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.

    • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685
    Reference
    24705i
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  • 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.

    • Farrier, Robert, 1796-1879
    Date
    [between 1820 and 1829?]
    Reference
    2498577i
    • Pictures
  • An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.

    Reference
    11742i
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