Details

Subject(s)

• Chess players—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Couples—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Indoor games—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Recreation—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Caricature [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
• Depiction: Interior scene. Room where man and woman play chess at table, one figure stands.
• Unsigned.
• Title below in TR's hand. No print known. A Lilliputian man and woman chess player can be found on Row2 of Sheet 24 of the Grotesque Borders - but have no relation to this drawing. For other more elaborate studies of Chess players by TR see Checkmate

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

Rothrock no. A25

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