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James Gillray
1756-1815
Two-penny whist / Js. Gillray ad vivm fect.
[London] : Pubd. Jany. 11th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
1986.412
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[London] : Pubd. Jany. 11th 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows Hannah Humphrey, her shop attendant Betty, and two men, engaged in a game of whist. Betty is holding out the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. The two men are said to be a German named Tholdal and Betty's partner, Mortimer, a picture-dealer and restorer.
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