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Description: | This tense scene filled with darkness and drama, shows a troubled, yet dangerously handsome man who has just lost a fortune gambling. Dice lie scattered on the table, the cup used to shake the dice has fallen on its side, indicating the moment when all was lost. The handling of light and shade whereby the man's pale face emerges out of the darkened background, his eyes averted anxiously to the ground all reveal the foreboding of his circumstance.
Oil painting showing a male figure in a dark room standing next to a gambling table. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. He is looking to the floor in distress. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Playing cards Money Bankruptcy Men Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings Victorian period Gambling Card games Indoor games Paintings Debt People Poor | Temporal: | 1868
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | PETTIE; John (1839 - 1893) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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