Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… ‘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 Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth century … and publications on the subject such as Edmund Hoyle’s The Polite Gamester (1745) or Games improved (1755) in which card games and table games in particular took pride of place. Consequently, the gaming table itself became a desirable … in drawings and caricatures of White’s for instance – as well as highly adaptable. 2 1 . For an analysis on how card games gradually became a mark of hospitality favouring social interactions among the middle classes see Janet E. …
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