A doctor reading the 'Lancet' in a gentleman's club: another member states it is boring, and suggests they play billiards which the doctor would find more boring. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.

Caption reads: 'Griggles. "Hullo Dumpley! What are you reading? Christmas number of the Lancet? Put it down, and come and have a game of pyramids!"'

Pyramids: "(Billiards) A game in which a number of red balls (typically fifteen) are arranged in a triangle on a billiard table and players take turns to try to pot them with a cue ball" (Oxford English dictionary)

[London], 1883.

1 print : wood engraving ; border 12.3 x 10.5 cm

Depressing! CK.

Wellcome Collection 14280i