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Summary

Thomas Rowlandson: A Gambling Table at Devonshire House (detail) (

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Artist



Description	English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death	13 July 1757	21 April 1827
Location of birth/death	Old Jewry	London
Work location	London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794), Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
Authority file	: Q318584 VIAF: 56672964 ISNI: 0000000121341830 ULAN: 500006930 LCCN: n50022330 NLA: 35465846 WorldCat

Title

A Gambling Table at Devonshire House (detail)

Description

English: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (seated, left) and her sister Viscountess Duncannon (later Countess of Bessborough) (standing) at the gaming table in Devonshire House in London, by Thomas Rowlandson.

Date

1791

Current location

Private collection

Notes

This image previously misidentified Lady Duncannon as Lady Elizabeth Foster.

References

•Foreman, Amanda (1998) Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, London: HarperCollins, pp. section following p. 208 ISBN 0002556685

•Foreman, Amanda (2001) Georgiana's World: the Illustrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, London: HarperCollins, pp. pp. 64−65 ISBN 0007122764

Source/Photographer

http://www.myspace.com/countessofbessborough/photos/895383

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