The Card Players
1780–1820
Medium
Brush and gray and black ink wash heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions
Diameter 2-9/16 in. ( 6.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958
Accession Number
59.23.24
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, British, 19th century · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, British, 19th century** is not the name of a single individual but a standard museum attribution used for works whose creators remain unidentified yet are clearly British and date to the 1800s. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, employ this designation for hundreds of drawings, prints, designs, and decorative studies that lack signatures or firm documentary ...