An elegant table with two billiard pockets, the legs formed of crow's feet, dice, packs of cards and billiard balls upon the flat surface, a raven standing upon a dice box between two gibbets, one with a pistol, lettered "to botany bay!", the other with a hangman's noose, lettered "to hell!!!", a trophy formed of a purse, pistols and bloody swords in front, two billiard cues crossed behind, a large sack of gold coinage below, bottles and a spilt glass on the ground, a scrolling paper above lettered "let those laugh who win!", clouds and a blue sky beyond; (1817)
hand-coloured lithograph. Date: 1817 (August). Dimensions: Height: 264 mm (sheet); Width: 206 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Arms of the Greeks! (BM 1977,1210.3)
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