Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in the other, looking triumphiously rapacious smile as a stout lady (? Mrs. Hobart) who sits (right) clenching her fists and scowling back. All the others have expressions of alarm or concern, the least agitated being the Prince of Wales, seated on Lady Archer's left. On the extreme right and next Mrs. Hobart is Fox, turning up his eyes. The guests (except the Prince) are much caricatured; one of Gillray's witch-like hags sits between the Prince and Mrs. Hobert. On the table are heaps of coins, notes or bills, and rouleaux of guineas. Above the design is etched 'The Knave wins all'. The title continues: 'To all those earthly Divinities who charmed 20 Years go, this Honourable method of banishing mortifying reflections, is dedicated. O Woman! Woman! everlasting is your power over us, for in youth you charm our Hearts, and in your after-years you charm away our Purses'. The faro-tables of Lady Archer and other women of fashion were notorious by 1792. On 1 Feb. 1791 Storer wrote: 'Faro goes on as briskly as ever; those who have not fortune enough of their own. . . have recourse to this profitable game. . . . The ladies are all embarked in banks, Mrs. Strutt [Sturt], Lady ArcherMrs. Hobart, Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, are avowed bankers; others, I supposed, are secretly concerned.' 'Auckland Corr.' ii. 384. Lady Archer was supposed to have supplied in this way the loss of income due to the marriages of her daughters. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8075.