EditorialBilliards. Anders Zorn; Swedish, 1860-1920. Date: 1898. Dimensions: 178 x 128 mm (image/plate); 400 x 298 mm (sheet). Etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: Sweden.
EditorialDoor and Chimney of the Billiards room at Versailles, plate I from the Series 'Portes a Placard et Lambris', published as part of 'L'Architecture ? la Mode'.
EditorialTwo Standing Figures (Study for A Game of Billiards), c. 1807. Louis L?opold Boilly (French, 1761-1845). Black chalk with gray and brown-black chalk, with stumping, framing lines in brown-black chalk; sheet: 31.2 x 26.6 cm (12 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.); overa...
EditorialBilliards. Anders Zorn; Swedish, 1860-1920. Date: 1898. Dimensions: 178 x 128 mm (image/plate); 400 x 298 mm (sheet). Etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: Sweden.
EditorialDoor and Chimney of the Billiards room at Versailles, plate I from the Series 'Portes a Placard et Lambris', published as part of 'L'Architecture ? la Mode'.
EditorialPlaying billiards- a man chalking his cue. The Cambridge Grisette ... Illustrated by C. Keene. Tinsley Bros.: London, 1862. Source: 12631.aa.29, 108. Language: English.
EditorialPrimeval billiards.' Prehistoric people playing a game of billiards. Prehistoric Peeps. From “Punch.” Drawn by E. T. Reed. [With 26 plates.]. London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1896]. Source: 1876.b.36 peep II.
EditorialLadies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards. Dated: 1756. Dimensions: sheet: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.). Medium: pen and black ink with gray and black wash, heightened with white on laid paper, incised throughout, the verso reddened for transfer.
EditorialThe game of ground billiards, 16th century. Men use clubs to hit balls between hoops, in a mix of billiards, golf and croquet. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialLadies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards. Dated: 1756. Dimensions: sheet: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.). Medium: pen and black ink with gray and black wash, heightened with white on laid paper, incised throughout, the verso reddened for transfer.
EditorialDoor and Chimney of the Billiards room at Versailles, plate I from the Series 'Portes a Placard et Lambris', published as part of 'L'Architecture ? la Mode'.
EditorialLouis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845). French painter. Game of Billiards, 1807. Detail. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialLouis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845). French painter. Game of Billiards, 1807. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialThe Saint Ovide Fair was held in Paris every August at the Place Louis XV (now place de la Concorde). It was famous for its billiards hall, dance performances by Nicolet, booths, circus animals, etc. Lithograph from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century...
EditorialGame played with ball, stick, hoop and target (the origin of billiards and croquet), 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialBilliards table for pool (la poule) with two cue balls, 1827. Charles Chereau's table played music when a ball was potted in each pocket. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, P...
EditorialThe game of ground billiards, 16th century. Men use clubs to hit balls between hoops, in a mix of billiards, golf and croquet. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialThe royal game of billiards between Louis XIV and Michel Chamillard in the third apartment. After an engraving by Antoine Trouvain, 1698. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, P...
EditorialFashionable men and women playing pool in a billiards room in the 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph after Jean-Henri Marlet from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialUNIVERSITY LIFE AT OXFORD, THE PROCTOR: 1. Tandem driving, the Eighth Deadly Sin; 2. Flight; 3. The Academical Costume; 4. & 5. "Are you a Member of this University, Sir?"; 6. Billiards after 9 P.M.; 7. A Contribution to the University Chest.