Game of chess [graphic] / design'd by an amateur ; etch'd by G. Cruikshank.

Creator:

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[not before 1 August 1835]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27 x 39 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/974415

Notes:

Artist from British Museum catalogue.
Publication from another dated state published by McLean: "Augt 1st. 1835."
See no. 12392 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, for a related version of this print.
Title from caption below image.

Abstract:

"Two elderly men, in old-fashioned dress, play chess, seated at a small table, lit by two guttering candles. One moves, the other watches with intense concern. Each has a deeply interested spectator leaning on the back of his chair. All four are caricatured. A small dog lies on the ground. A large fire burns in the grate (right). Over the chimney-piece is the lower part of a whole length portrait. On the wall behind the players are three pictures: one of a man playing ninepins outside a rustic inn, with a donkey looking over a paling, is flanked by a picture of a horse and by a landscape."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Bowling.
Chess.
Dogs.
Fireplaces.
Floor coverings.
Hand lenses.
Pictures.

Topics:

Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848, artist.
McLean, T. (Thomas), publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1835.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1835.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

835.08.011.51

Orbis Record:

9196558

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr38080

OID:

16873198

PID:

digcoll:4848273