Details
Contributor Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871, printer.
Title Billiards. J. Jeater's subscription room. No. 40, South 5th Street. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Lithd. by C. G. Childs
Date [1830]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; 30 x 27 cm.(11.75 x 10.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the interior of the billiard hall operated by probably Joseph Jeater. At the corner of the table, a gentleman in shirt-sleeves lines up his cue stick to the billiard ball as his opponent watches on. Four gentlemen, two just arrived, watch the match. One stands and another sits beneath three framed pictures hanging on the wall. A gas lamp chandelier hangs over the billiard table.
Is referenced by Wainwright 27
Notes Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright.
Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Broome. Oct. 10, 1918.
Artist possibly E. W. Clay.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 40
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 04 C 436
Trimmed.
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Subject Billiard parlors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Billiards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Advertisements -- 1830-1840.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 04 C 436
Accession number HSP Bb 04 C 436