[Servants playing billiards] [art original].

Published/Created:

[London?]
[not after 1803]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : chalk, sepia, ink wash, grey wash, and pencil ; framed to 68 x 82 cm

Notes:

Title from card catalogue.
Published stipple engraving: no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Daniell & Son to W.S. Lewis; May 1966, 95£.

Abstract:

A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes.

Associated Names:

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811 [Artist]

Topics:

Billiard rooms
Billiards
Pictures
Servants

Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable

Genre:

Drawings -- British -- 18th century
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1803

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, boxed in Object Room Bin 5

Orbis Record:

12627538

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr33298

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15810746

PID:

digcoll:2783457