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British School
19th century
Altercation Over a Game of Cards
image: 10 9/16 x 7 7/8 inches (269 x 200 mm); on sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 7/16 inches (304 x 240 mm)
Pen and blue ink with wash over graphite touched with white and orange chalk, on paper.
1986.2120
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawing for an illustration for an unidentified work of popular fiction, probably dating from the first half of the 19th century; evidently the second in a series of three drawings depicting a fight over a card game (see 1986.2119-21), with a fourth drawing illustrating another episode from the same work (1986.2122).
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "24" in pencil at upper right.
Summary
Drawing shows a man attacking another man over a card game as two other men seek to restrain him, upsetting a half barrel placed between them to serve as a table. The men, probably sailors, are variously dressed in plain kilts, high boots, and watch caps, and one of them, a Black man who has laid hold of the assailant by the arm, wears a full sleeved blouse.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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