drawing

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Object Type
Museum number: 1836,0811.414
Description: A game of backgammon; scene in a tavern with a man seated on a bench at left, his host rising from a chair opposite lifting his spectacles, two other men behind looking on, a jug on a stool in the foreground Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk
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Production date: 1659-1670 (c.)
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 141 millimetres; Width: 192 millimetres
Curator's comments: The 1995 Ostade Exhibition label text (exhibited with 1836-8-11-413): For further discussion see 1836-8-11-413.
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (43); Schnackenburg 1981 / Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Gesamtdarstellung mit Werkkatalogen (133)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1995 Jan-Apr, BM, Ostade (no cat.)
Subjects: tavern/inn; gambling/gaming
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1836
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1836,0811.414
Conservation

Free entry