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The Card Players

Charles Burt1850

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: The Card Players
  • Creator: Charles Kennedy Burt after Richard Caton Woodville
  • Date Created: 1850
  • Subject Keywords: African American history, American Studies, games, genre
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, lower right: “Engraved by Charles Burt”; inscribed in plate along lower edge: “Southern District of NY ©1851 by American Art-Union”
  • Set or Series Title: Gallery of American Art, No. 1
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds donated by John E. Andrus III (B.A. Wesleyan 1933), 1994
  • Materials & Techniques: Etching and engraving on buff wove paper
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: From the American Art-Union’s “Gallery of American Art, No. 1”. Printed by J. Dalton; published by American Art-Union, 497 Broadway, New York
  • Dimensions: 1892
  • Bibliography: Mann, American Art-Union (1977), p. 65
  • Associated People: Created by Charles Kennedy Burt (American, 1823-1892), After Richard Caton Woodville (American, active Europe, 1825-1855)
  • Accession Number: 1994.13.2.5
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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