Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Table at Devonshire House’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.77.1, 1791. Image Richard Seymour, The Compleat Gamester (London: E. Curll, 1734) (frontispiece). Résumé Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth century usually feature … green as a reminder of the lawns on which the game was originally played. 4 . Abraham De Moivre, Faro and Rouge et Noir (London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1793). Aesthetic and Technical Aspects As a table chiefly designed to entertain (in … creates, And dread Destruction on its Meal awaits’ 5 5 . Anon., An Essay on Gaming in An Epistle to a Young Nobleman (London, 1761), p. 19. The gaming table was, it seems, also seen as a place of danger, where unsuspecting players could be …
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