drawing
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1320
- Description
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A game of Morra; two men standing in the courtyard of an Inn, playing at the Italian game of darting the fingers, a third seated by a table with wine under a vine trellis watching them
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1744-1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 143 millimetres
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Width: 186 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- 'The game of Mora ... consists in throwing out the hand with one or more fingers extended, and at the same instant uttering a guess at the number they will make when added to the number simultaneously extended by the other player' [Hoare, Italian Dictionary].
Two other drawings by Allan showing the game of Mora are in the National Gallery of Scotland (see: 'David Allan: Sacraments and Bacchanals', Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Feb-Mar 1982, nos.27 and 28); others are listed in 'The Indefatigable Mr Allan', Scottish Arts Council, 1973, p.26.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0610.1320
