British School

British School
19th century
Altercation Over a Game of Cards
Pen and blue ink with wash over graphite touched with white and orange chalk, on paper.
image: 10 9/16 x 7 7/8 inches (269 x 200 mm); on sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 7/16 inches (304 x 240 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2120
Notes: 

Drawing for an illustration for an unidentified work of popular fiction, probably dating from the first half of the 19th century; evidently the second in a series of three drawings depicting a fight over a card game (see 1986.2119-21), with a fourth drawing illustrating another episode from the same work (1986.2122).

Inscription: 

Numbered "24" in pencil at upper right.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing shows a man attacking another man over a card game as two other men seek to restrain him, upsetting a half barrel placed between them to serve as a table. The men, probably sailors, are variously dressed in plain kilts, high boots, and watch caps, and one of them, a Black man who has laid hold of the assailant by the arm, wears a full sleeved blouse.

Associated names: 

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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