Two-penny whist [graphic] / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect.

Creator:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
Pubd. Jany. 11th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street,
[11 January 1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 33 cm.

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW

Abstract:

"A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the printseller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer, a picture-dealer and restorer. A scene in Bond Street, shortly before the removal to St. James's Street. This print (reversed) appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Card games.
Chairs.
Gambling.

Topics:

Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1796.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1796.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

796.01.11.01.2

Orbis Record:

8060137

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr08503

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 7, no. 8885

OID:

11105819

PID:

digcoll:976521