Image of men, women, and children in a classically furnished billiard parlor. In the foreground, people are shown conversing, reading, drinking tea, and playing billiard on a large, ornately designed table. In the center of the print is a child shown approaching a cat that is laying under the billiard table. A sign in the foreground reads, “Kavanagh & Decker, Manufacturers of Billiard Tables. Cor Canal & Centre Sts. New York.” The background includes marble columns, statues, a billiard score board, and a Victorian clock. Single-color print. "Billiards in the Home Circle. Published by Kavanagh and Decker, cor. Canal & Centre Sts." --text, bottom of print. “Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by Kavanaugh & Decker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C.” --text, left margin. “Lith. of J. Sibert, cor. Fulton & Church St. N.Y.” --text, right margin.
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1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 44.13 x 58.74 cm (17 3/8 x 23 1/8 in.)
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