The game of quadrille

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, In a tastefully appointed room, three ladies and three gentlemen are engaged in a round of quadrille, a card game developed at the French court in the early eighteenth century. Gravelot, who was born and trained in France, came to London in to pursue a career as a painter and book illustrator. If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us. See original listing.

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In the edition of Hoyle's Games , editor G. It is on these grounds that in the following description I take it for granted that Hombre, the term designating the solo player, is female, even though it is the Spanish for "man".

It developed along different lines in different countries over a long period of time, thus further complicating its already inherent complexities. Furthermore, such would-be Hoyles as sought to describe it in the 18th century had not yet developed the art of accurate and comprehensive description, and unconsciously took it for granted that you would understand their explanations because you already knew how to play the game.

Those of the 19th century were often better writers and teachers, but by then no longer knew the game at first hand and had as I have obvious difficulty in making sense of what their predecessors had passed on to them. My primary source is an admirable page booklet entitled Quadrille Elucidated , by a pseudonymous " Q. Quanti ", largely because I possess a copy but equally because the author was obviously not only a thoroughly experienced player but also a thoughtful analyst and a wonderful writer if you like 19th-century English.

Quanti clearly belongs to the superior tradition of card-game explication represented by Francis Willughby in the 17th century and Henry " Cavendish " Jones in the 19th, and from his style I suspect him to have been a lawyer as indeed was Edmond Hoyle. The Treatise is physically impossible to scan or photocopy without damage, and in any case is too long to reproduce here; but there is a copy in the Frederic Jessel Collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, if you wish to examine it yourself - in which case please send me any corrections you may wish to recommend.

The titles noted above, also in Jessel, are also commendable, if to a lesser degree. I have, of course, examined Hoyle himself and many of his later editors and plagiarists, none of whom contributes anything useful, even where they are intelligible, and most of whom kick the same bits of text about like a worn-out football. Though G.