Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Gaming Table at Devonshire House’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.77.1, 1791. Image Richard Seymour, The Compleat Gamester (London: E. Curll, 1734) (frontispiece). Abstract … the end of the seventeenth century, testifying to the growing popularity of gaming. This evolution, which was in large part due to the technical progress of marquetry, also turned the gaming table into the symbol of the dissolute life of players whose addiction got the better of them, the very image of a corrupted sociability in which each participant is a prey in the eye of the rapacious gamester. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Keywords Aristocracy …
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