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  • Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    1 November 1813
    Reference
    24833i
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  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    Publish'd 23 Dec.r 1771
    Reference
    24736i
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  • The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    [between 1700 and 1799]
    Reference
    24726i
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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
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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, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards. 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, the Star and Garter, &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq.

    • Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.
    Date
    [1786]
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  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.

    Date
    1860
    Reference
    26050i
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  • Five men sit indoors smoking and drinking, others play cards. Engraving, mid-19th century, by W. French after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
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    24834i
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  • The King, Queen and Ace of hearts and a blank black card surrounding a condom against a green background; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Luis Camnitzer, ca. 1993-5.

    Date
    [1993/4?]
    Reference
    675958i
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  • 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.
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    24705i
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  • Five men gather round a table to play cards, drink and smoke in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after D. Teniers, the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
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    24735i
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