1796 copperplate engraving with hand colour. James Gillray. Two-Penny Whist. Caricature, card game.

Gillray (James). Two-Penny Whist, H. Humphrey, Jany. 11th 1796, etching with contemporary hand-colouring,  33cm x 22 cm. Stuck to backing card and in a mount, 46 cm x 39 cm. 

BM Satires number 8885. A social caricature of a game at whist. Betty on the left, produces the ace of spades, with which she is about to take her seventh consecutive trick. Her fellow card players appear less than pleased. Her mistress, Miss H. Humphrey - Gillray's publisher - sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German and Bettys partner, Mortimer, a picture dealer and restorer. This print - although reversed - can be seen in Gillrays "Very Slippy-Weather" which was published in 1808 and shows the front of Hannah Humphrey's print shop.