Kick Up at a Hazard Table, Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1787–90


Kick Up at a Hazard Table, ca. 1787–90, Hand-colored etching and aquatint, sheet: 16 1/8 x 21 7/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Men from a range of social classes gather to play Hazard, an old English dice game (from which modern craps descends). Tensions have erupted into violence after a British officer, standing at right, has suffered a substantial loss


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