Billiards [graphic] / H. Bunbury delin.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1803?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 35.5 cm

Notes:

A copy of no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London : Publisher not identified, 1836?], p. 41.
Printmaker and publication information from a smaller version of this design published 1 Mar. 1803 by R. Ackerman. See Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 42.
Title etched below image.

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."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Billiard rooms.
Billiards.
Dogs.
Pictures.
Servants.

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1803.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8

Orbis Record:

10174306

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11792693

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11791889

PID:

digcoll:3996577