All Fours
(?) Thomas Rowlandson British
After Henry William Bunbury British
First published by John Raphael Smith British
Not on view
Within an oval, two men play "All Fours" an English card game similar to Whist. They sit on ladder-backed chairs at a small round topped tripod table. The older man, at right, pulls an ace of spades from his hand and displays it as the winning card. He is dressed plainly and wears a bob wig. The younger man, thin and fashionably dressed, with a pigtail queue, reacts in consternation. He has played a king or queen of spades, which is outranked by the ace. Cards from a previous round lie on the table.
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