Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Rook's Pigeon'd’, 1797, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D12595 Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Gaming Table at Devonshire House’, Met Museum, 41.77.1, 1791 Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Private Amusement’, 1787, Met Museum, 59.533.170 … among women, while providing material for comedies. 8 The most illustrious of them all was Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire , seen below casting the dice at hazard. Unhappily married, she also indulged in faro , which became her …
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