Details
Creator Burt, Charles Kennedy, 1823-1892, engraver.
Contributor Woodville, Richard Caton, 1825-1855, artist.
Title The card player. [graphic] : Engraved from the original picture in the possession of William J. Hoppin Esq. / Painted by R. C. Woodville; engraved by Charles Burt.
Publisher [New York]: American Art-Union
Date [1850]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; 27 x 38 cm. (10.75 x 14.75 in.)
Description Genre print showing a card game between a card sharp and an older gentleman traveler in a waiting room. The gamblers sit at a table, under the guise of a young male referee standing and smoking a pipe. The young card player stirs a hot toddy and hides a card under his thigh. The older traveler, his coat on his chair and his hat and umbrella resting beside him, places his hand on a card, and peers past his cheating opponent at a mirror on the wall. The traveler's African American servant sits patiently behind him across from a stove. Debris lays on the floor and several layers of playbills hang on the wall near a pendulum and framed print.
Notes After an 1846 painting by Richard Caton Woodville in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI.
One of six prints issued in 1850 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York.
Gift of David Doret.
Hoppin was an Art-Union officer.
Described in the Bulletin of the American Art-Union, May 1849, p. 9.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Card players.
Cardsharping.
African American domestics.
Waiting rooms.
Genre Engravings -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Printer American Art-Union, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Genre [P.2006.28.24]
Accession number P.2006.28.24