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: … who may himself have had ‘an uncontrollable passion for gaming’ according to his obituarist. 7 In A Gaming Table at Devonshire House (1791) for instance, the artist portrays Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, whose debt amounted to more than £ 60,000 by 1789, at a game of Faro with her guests, who seem …
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