Ombre
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Ombre or omber, also called l'Hombre, is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players. It has been described as "the most successful card game ever invented."
L'Hombre (1887), a painting by Malthe Odin Engelstedt. The player in the center is Rasmus Malling-Hansen, Danish inventor of an early typewriter.
A Game of L'hombre in Brøndum's Hotel by Swedish artist Anna Palm de Rosa, circa 1885
The Rape of the Lock
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The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous
Ombre
…the game is Remise, and Ombre is to lay down two-thirds of the pool and his partner one. The game of Ombre is Belinda's game in Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock, written in 1714. An Ace of Hearts steps forth: The King unseen Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to Vengeance with an eager…
Arabella Fermor, a 19th-century print after Sir Peter Lely's portrait of her
"The New Star", illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for The Rape of the Lock
Belinda sails down the Thames to Hampton Court attended by sylphs; a copperplate engraving by Anna Maria Werner (1744).
Der Lockenraub, the 1744 German translation of Pope's poem by Luise Gottsched