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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Court cards the best to deal with [print].

BIB_ID
459703
Accession number
MA 176 E28
Creator
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890. NNPM
Description
1 print on laid paper : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark: 276 x 269 mm; sheet: 250 x 246 mm
Notes
Printmaker Joshua Baldrey occasionally operated from 19 Holborn in London, under the imprint "S. Doughty & Co." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
With "Plate 1" at upper left.
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark and inlaid in sheet 292 x 230 mm. NNPM
The three figures identified in pencil below. NNPM
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890. NNPM
Summary
Print shows two playing-cards, a knave and a king, between which kneels the figure of Warren Hasting in Oriental costume, holding out a diamond (suit-mark) in each hand towards the figure on each side of him; below the knave is etched "Thurlow" (the Lord Chancellor), while below the king is "Geo. III"; beneath the central figure is "Hastings".