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Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767, Das Pharao Spiel, undated
- Title:
Das Pharao Spiel
- Additional Title(s):
The Pharaoh Game
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 1/8 inches (31.8 × 41 cm), Image: 11 1/16 x 15 15/16 inches (28.1 x 40.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "Larva cave fortuna tibi mutabilis errat, | Ancipiti ludo disce referre pedem. | Nam multorum equidem numorum quoeris | Fahentem at chartam perdere cernis opes. | J. E. Nilson invent."; lower center: "DAS PHARO SPIEL."; lower right: "Vermumte Lustbarkeit bey wandelbahrem Gluck! | die Karte wendet sich, verwegner geh zuruck, | du denekst in Eile zwar ein Capital zu ziehen, | Merck wan das blat betrugt, mus GLuck u. Vortheil fliehe. | J. J. Haid sc. et excud. Aug. Vind."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1425
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bows | candles | card games | card table | cards | cloaks | coats | costume | cuffs | dance | dice | feathers | games | genre subject | lace | leisure | masks | men | money | nobility | party | ruffs | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23278
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