$125
Mid Eighteenth Century Gaming Table and Card Sharpers Engraving. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1850). Engraved by prolific English engraver James Hulett, d. 1771, hand colored, depicting a salon card game, the caption reading in part, ”In Picture, here, the Gaming Table view, And all the Passions of the gaming Crew, Where Villains, vers’d in every vile Deceit, Men of high Birth and Noble Fortune Meet, Who, stranger still! Devoid of Sense & Shame.” Framed to an overall size of 21 x 18”. Very good. Not examined out of frame.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-06-27