Two Penny Cribbage

Two Penny Cribbage

Thomas Rowlandson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two men play cards at a table. One says: "One for his Nob." The other: "Then I'm nobb'd out of Two-pence!" This an 1810 reissue of a print first published in 1799.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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