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James Gillray
1756-1815
Two-penny whist / Js. Gillray ad vivm fect.
[London] : Pubd. Jany. 11th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
etching and stipple, hand colored
image: 188 x 302 mm; sheet: 239 x 351 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.412
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Hannah Humphrey, her shop attendant Betty, and two men, engaged in a game of whist. Betty is holding out the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. The two men are said to be a German named Tholdal and Betty's partner, Mortimer, a picture-dealer and restorer.
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Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
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