IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240142
accession number:	P.15114-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After the painting by Matthew William Peters (probably painted 1785 (companion to Peters', The Fortune Teller); ?Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland). The two young card players have long been identified by an annotated impression of Ward's mezzotint in the British Museum (1876,1209.449) as the flamboyant and excessive Lord Courtenay (William, 3rd Viscount Courtenay, 1768-1835), to the left and Thomas Rowlandson, to the right. A third, older man stands behind Courtenay, purportedly assisting with his right hand as to which cards he should play, whilst behind his back, holding up three fingers to indicate what he is suggesting to Rowlandson. The spectator, meanwhile, is privy to further cheating on Rowlandson's part, as we can see that he is hiding the ace of diamonds behind his back.
title:	print

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Joseph Prior, 1918 (received 1919-03)

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240142





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1802 - 1802
creation date earliest:	1802
creation date latest:	1802
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Ward, William
maker: Ackermann, Rudolph
maker: Peters, Matthew William