File:The State Lottery (BM 1868,0808.3608).jpg
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[edit]The State Lottery
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Title |
The State Lottery |
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Description |
English: The interior of the Guildhall, London, with a raised stage with large lottery wheels on either side from which Bluecoat boys from Christ's Hospital are drawing tickets which are handed to Commissioners seated at a long table; clerks sit at a table below and in the foreground is a crowd of men, women and children awaiting results. Portraits of the king and queen hang against the gothic windows above.
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Depicted people | Representation of: George II, King of Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1727-1730 (circa) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.3608 |
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Notes | Stephens suggests that the print is connected with the lottery for Westminster Bridge held at Stationers' Hall first held between 10 December 1739 and 25 January 1740, but the style appears to be earlier. The presence of portraits of George II and Queen Caroline dates the print to after 1727; the arrangement of the lottery wheels is close to that of Hogarth's print, "The Lottery" (Paulson 1989 53) of 1724 and may well have been based on it. The later state (G,11.140) identifies the hall as the Guildhall. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3608 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 2,079 px |
Image height | 2,738 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (20060914.r.77) Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:09, 13 December 2007 |
File change date and time | 14:11, 13 December 2007 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:11, 13 December 2007 |