Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.
- Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
- Date:
- Publish'd 23 Dec.r 1771
- Reference:
- 24736i
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Publication/Creation
Publish'd 23 Dec.r 1771.
Physical description
1 print : mezzotint ; image 40.9 x 33.9 cm
Lettering
From a painting by D: Teniers, in the collection of Sir James Lowther Bart. Teniers pinxt. W. Baillie sculpt.
References note
E. Korthals Altes, 'International rivalry at the auction of Willem Lormier’s paintings in 1763: James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland', Simiolus, 2015-2016, 38: 273-288 (this print pp. 283-284, no. 10, fig. 15)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 24736i
Type/Technique
Languages
Subjects
- Smoking
- Tobacco use
- Tobacco pipes
- Clay tobacco pipes
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Taverns (Inns)
- Playing cards
- Card games
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages
- Owls
- Interior architecture
- Drinking vessels
- Pitchers
- Chamber pots
- CostumeNetherlandsHistory17th century
- Leisure
- Lormier, William, 1682-1768Art collections.
- Lonsdale, James Lowther, Earl of, 1736-1802Art collections.
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Location Status Access Closed stores