Each card shows music and lyrics from John Gay’s Beggar’s opera and a small standard playing card inset in the upper left corner; red suits with stencil colored pips; no tax stamp; maker’s details on king of clubs, 10 of spades and ace of hearts.

• Printmaker: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, printmaker.
  
• Title: [Beggar’s opera playing cards].
  
• Publication: [London] : Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, [approximately 1770]

Catalog Record

File 55 G25 S770++

Acquired June 2023