Paper on an Elizabethan picture and drawings of Moreton Hall, Cheshire
Reference code
SAL/01/02/06/07
Title
Paper on an Elizabethan picture and drawings of Moreton Hall, Cheshire
Date
c March 1806
Level of description
item
Extent and format
2 pp
Scope and content
Letter from Samuel Lyons presenting a picture on a board showing what is claimed to be Lord Burleigh at a card game with an unidentified group of high ranking figures.
Mentioned in the minutes for 27th March 1805: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.031.008
Also described by Daines Barrington in Archaeologia Vol 8 1787 p.133 (available online):
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/A03B054F52EE375BE0E3D16F1B92C45F/S0261340900021263a.pdf/xvi-observations-on-a-picture-by-zuccaro-from-lord-falklands-collection-supposed-to-represent-the-game-of-primero-by-the-hon-daines-barrington-inscribed-to-the-rev-mr-bowle.pdf
The painting is now titled ‘Four Gentlemen of High Rank Playing Primero’ and is in the private collection of the Earl of Derby. A digital version is visible on the Wikipedia page for the Primero card game (with a thorough description of the painting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Primero.jpg
Mentioned in the minutes for 27th March 1805: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.031.008
Also described by Daines Barrington in Archaeologia Vol 8 1787 p.133 (available online):
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/A03B054F52EE375BE0E3D16F1B92C45F/S0261340900021263a.pdf/xvi-observations-on-a-picture-by-zuccaro-from-lord-falklands-collection-supposed-to-represent-the-game-of-primero-by-the-hon-daines-barrington-inscribed-to-the-rev-mr-bowle.pdf
The painting is now titled ‘Four Gentlemen of High Rank Playing Primero’ and is in the private collection of the Earl of Derby. A digital version is visible on the Wikipedia page for the Primero card game (with a thorough description of the painting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Primero.jpg
Creator
Lysons, Samuel (1763-1819), antiquarian and engraver