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James Gillray
1756-1815
Two-penny whist / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect.
Published
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.
hand colored etching
image: 23.5 x 34.8 cm; plate: 23.5 x 34.8 cm; sheet: 25.5 x 37.5 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2923
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer.
Associated names
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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