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Guido Reni was himself an eccentric and rather difficult character. Notoriously pious, he nevertheless ruined himself with a gambling addiction.

a girl who faces losing more than her money at the gambling tables in Alfred Elmore's social melodrama, On the Brink.

Academy Alphabet', Punch, 13 May 1865. This painting, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1865, vividly dramatises Victorian anxieties about gambling, especially among young women.

Moralising scenes of ‘merry companies’ – young men in taverns gambling, drinking and flirting – had been a popular subject in Dutch prints since the sixteenth century, and the Prodigal Son narrative accommodated

On the Brink (1865). In Alfred Elmore’s Victorian melodrama, On the Brink, above [PD.108-1975], the back wall of the gambling house into which we look is dominated by

The Soldiers casting lots for Christ's Garments. The gambling soldiers appear in the foreground of an illumination from a fifteenth-century French manuscript in the Fitzwilliam [MS.62.f.199r].