Chess Player Collection

Les Joueurs d echecs (Chess players), 15th century. Creator: Anonymous master
Les Joueurs d echecs (Chess players), 15th century. Found in the collection of Musee national du Moyen Age (Musee de Cluny)

Chess celebrities at the late chess meeting, 1855. Herr Lowenthal, M De Riviere, Mr Wyvill, MP, Herr Falkbeer, Mr Staunton, Lord Lyttelton, Captain Kennedy

The chess players, 1863-1867. Creator: Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879)
The chess players, 1863-1867. Found in the Collection of the Petit Palais, Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

Mr. Morphy, the Celebrated Chessplayer, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Mr. Morphy, the Celebrated Chessplayer, 1858....this remarkable young chessplayer...[has performed an] astounding feat at Birmingham in conducting eight games blindfold at the same time against eight

Men playing chess, 1875-1934. Creator: Isaac Lazerus Israels
Men playing chess, 1875-1934

Women Playing a Game of Chess, c1700. Creator: Unknown
Women Playing a Game of Chess, c1700

A party of chess players outside a Turkish coffeehouse and barbershop, 1845. Creator: Martinus Rorbye
A party of chess players outside a Turkish coffeehouse and barbershop, 1845

Joueurs d'échecs, between 1863 and 1867. Creator: Honore Daumier
Joueurs d'echecs, between 1863 and 1867. The Chess Players

Chess players, 1886. Creator: Wentzel, Gustav (1859-1927)
Chess players, 1886. Found in the Collection of the Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo

Chess players, 1886. Creator: Wentzel, Gustav (1859-1927)
Chess players, 1886. Found in the Collection of the Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo

Chess-Players, 1891. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Chess-Players, 1891

Members of the Krasnoyarsk chess circle, participants of the telegraphic match between.... 1888. Creator: Lukhtanska
Members of the Krasnoyarsk chess circle, participants of the telegraphic match between the teams of Krasnoyarsk and St. Petersburg from 11 November 1886 to September 1888

"Checkmate - Next Move", by J. C. Horsley, A.R.A. from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Creator: H
"Checkmate - Next Move", by J. C. Horsley, A.R.A. from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Engraving of a painting

The Chess Players, ca. 1475. Creator: Liberale da Verona
The Chess Players, ca. 1475

Louis Paulsen, the Blindfold American Chessplayer - from a photograph by Hesler, of Chicago, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Louis Paulsen, the Blindfold American Chessplayer - from a photograph by Hesler, of Chicago, 1858. Child prodigy who emigrated to America from Germany

A Game at Chess, 1780. Creator: James Bretherton
A Game at Chess, 1780

Schachspiel (Chess Players), 1918. Creator: Lovis Corinth
Schachspiel (Chess Players), 1918

Chess players, 17th century. Creator: Caravaggio, Michelangelo, (after)
Chess players, 17th century. Private Collection

Portrait of AndreDanican Philidor, 1772. Creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Portrait of Andre Danican Philidor, 1772. After Charles Nicolas Cochin II

The Automaton Chess Player, 1845. Creator: Unknown
The Automaton Chess Player, 1845. A machine...invented in the year 1769. by Wolfgang de Kempelin...the concealed player was seated immediately under the chess board of the Automaton...the reverse of

St. Amant, 1844. Creator: Unknown
St. Amant, 1844. Portrait of French chess player Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, who...may safely be pronounced the most brilliant [chess] player of the present day.Monsieur St

Viennese Cafe: The Chess Players (Wiener Cafe: Die Schachspieler), 1911. Creator: Moritz Jung
Viennese Cafe: The Chess Players (Wiener Cafe: Die Schachspieler), 1911

The Scholars Mate, 1855. Creator: Oscar Gustav Rejlander
The Scholars Mate, 1855

The Chess Players, ca. 1845. Creator: Likely by Antoine-Francois-Jean Claudet
The Chess Players, ca. 1845

Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908) and Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) in Petersburg, 1893. Found in the Collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908) and William Steinitz (1836-1900) in Havana, 1880, 1880. Artist: Anonymous
Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908) and William Steinitz (1836-1900) in Havana, 1880, 1880. Private Collection

Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), 1880s. Artist: Anonymous
Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), 1880s. Private Collection

A Game of Chess, 1948. Artist: George Cruikshank
A Game of Chess, 1948. From British Chess, by Kenneth Matthews. [Collins, London, 1948]. (Colorised black and white print)

A Game at Chess: Lord Grey Playing William IV, 1948. Artist: John Doyle
A Game at Chess: Lord Grey Playing William IV, 1948. From British Chess, by Kenneth Matthews. [Collins, London, 1948]

The Chess Players, 1948. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
The Chess Players, 1948. From British Chess, by Kenneth Matthews. [Collins, London, 1948]

The International Chess Congress - some of the chief members of the Liverpool Chess Club, 1890. A print from The Graphic, 23 August 1890

Chess and Cards, c1850s. Detail from a stereoscopic card

Mr Morphy, the Celebrated Chessplayer, 19th century. Paul Morphy (1837-1884) was an American chess prodigy who went on to become the most celebrated chess master of his time

A Game of Chess, c1900s-c1910s(?)

Chess, 1850s. Stereoscopic card

The Chess Players. Stereoscope Detail

A pleasant interruption. Two men in 18th century costume interrupted by a woman bringing them drinks

Playing chess, 13th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 13th century manuscript illustration (ms. no 7266), held by the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Those Laugh Who Win, 1885. Artist: Frank Dadd
Those Laugh Who Win, 1885. An engraving from the Illustrated London News, (London, 1885)

The Chessplayers, 1864. An engraving from the Illustrated Times, (London, 1864)

Chess match, at Parsloes, Febuary 23rd, 1794, in the presence of the Turkish Ambassador, 1794. Artist: Cook
Chess match, at Parsloe s, in the presence of the Turkish Ambassador, 23 February 1794

The annual blindfold entertainment at the city chess club, 1876. An engraving from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, (London, 1876)

A Fix, Black to Move, 19th century. Artist: Cheltnam
A Fix, Black to Move, 19th century

The Automaton Chess Player, 1845. Illustration published in The Illustrated London News, (1845)

Ancient Chess Play, 14th century, (1833). Illustration after a manuscript in the Harleian Collection of the British Library

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