The Lyon Archive

The chess players

Item

Subject

Thomas Eakins painting of Victorian chess players.

Description

This item is a digital reproduction of a nineteenth-century painting by Thomas Eakins. A. S. Lyon describes mentions his interest in chess on several occasions when he either plays or teaches others how to play chess.

Creator

Thomas Eakins

Source

Wikimedia Commons

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons, 12 January 2013, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_chess_players_thomas_eakins.jpeg

Date

1876

Contributor

Professor Heidi Kaufman

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

N/A

Format

.jpeg

Language

N/A

Type

N/A

Identifier

N/A

Coverage

N/A

Citation

Thomas Eakins, “The chess players,” The Lyon Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, https://lyon.eastendarchives.net/items/show/7.