Chess,
Vanity Fair portrait, 1888
Framed chromolithograph by APE (Carlo Pellegrini) picturing Joseph Henry Blackburne, British chess master nicknamed 'The Black Death'.
Despite only taking up the game at the age of 17 Blackburn became a world champion many times over and an icon of 'Romantic Chess'.
£175
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