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Peacock, W. (William), -1910
4
F. Ad. Richter & Co
3
Newton, T
3
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
2
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
2
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
2
Wallis, J. (John), -1818
2
Barry, D. T. (David Thomas)
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Britains Ltd
1
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
1
C. H. E
1
C.W.S. Crumpsall & Cardiff Biscuits
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Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
1
Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
1
Dales, T. T
1
Deacon, E
1
Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619–1682
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E. R. T
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Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684–1756
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Evans, Henry Smith
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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Unavailable
256
Available
83
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2023-2024
1
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
221
Books
63
Archives & Manuscripts
19
Prints
13
Drawings & Watercolors
6
Maps & Atlas (printed)
6
Videos
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Kits
1
Periodicals
1
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unknown
339
Period
19th century
256
20th century
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18th century
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21st century
20
17th century
4
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engraving
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recreation
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game
188
lithograph
71
board game
46
engraving
34
puzzle
34
playing card
26
chromolithograph
23
tunnel book
22
cut-paper work
21
toy
21
toy theater
20
drama
16
juvenile work
16
map
16
metamorphic picture
16
model
16
play
16
watercolor
16
hand coloring
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Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
41
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
38
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
34
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
27
Amusements -- Great Britain.
27
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
21
Children's plays, English.
16
Educational games.
12
Toy and movable books -- Specimens.
10
Greeting cards -- Specimens.
7
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
6
Card games -- Specimens -- Great Britain.
6
Clothing and dress.
6
Conduct of life.
6
Educational games -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
6
Europe -- Maps.
6
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
6
Block building (Children's activity)
5
Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
5
Love.
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19th century
60
20th century
7
18th century
3
16th century
2
17th century
2
Associated Places
Great Britain
225
England
12
Europe
7
France
6
Wales
6
Germany
5
London
5
Thames Tunnel (London, England)
5
United States
4
America
3
Harrow
3
Scotland
3
Asia
2
Edinburgh (Scotland)
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India
2
London (England)
2
Afria
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Aldershot Camp
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Arctic regions
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Boppard (Germany)
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
5
Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
3
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926–
3
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
3
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
2
Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792–1849
1
Begaye, Mary Frances
1
Benn, Timothy, 1936–
1
Bloom, Louis (Electical Engineer)
1
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 1947–
1
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 1982–
1
Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948–
1
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656–1710
1
Colvile, Mary Louisa Eden, 1788–1858,
1
Comnena, Anna, 1083–
1
Cuchetti, Francesco
1
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
1
Dawson, Harry
1
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797–1848
1
Dundas, David, Sir, 1735–1820
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Exhibition History
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
72
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
28
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
15
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11)
3
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
1
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
1
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
40
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
16
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger Pattenden.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous gift
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alec Van Sinderen
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Jones
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Mockett
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of Harry Dawson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Clement
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David K. Thompson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Glenn Mitchell
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda Brownrigg; Friends of British Art Fund
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louis G. Audette, Yale BA 1962, BFA 1963, MS 1965
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miko McGinty, Yale BA 1993, MFA 1998, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman.
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English
298
German
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French
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Italian
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Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
[The 52 countries [sic] of England and Wales
102
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Anne Rushout commonplace book
circa 1776-circa 1832
103
Walter, Stephen, born 1975
The island
2017
104
The history of Little Fanny
1977
105
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
2005
106
Twenty-four picture-cards which you can combine together 1,686,553,615,927,922,354,187,720 times
[approximately 1920]
107
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Embossed picture cards
[1855?]
108
Opie, Julian, born 1958
This is Shahnoza in 3 parts
2008
109
The latest and most fascinating geometrical puzzle
[late 19th c.?]
110
Peacock, W. (William), -1910
Peacock's Superior dissected maps
[between 1875 and 1909]
111
Walker's tour through England and Wales
January 2nd 1809
112
The woodman's hut, or, The burning forest
[between 1876 and 1917]
113
The two riders =
[circa 1855?]
114
The panorama of Europe, a new game
1815
115
Industrial exhibition of all nations
[1851]
116
The protean figure and metamorphic costumes
1811
117
Sybilline leaves; or, Detector of the thoughts
[between 1819 and 1823]
118
Little Ben's first packet of puzzles
1806
119
Nuts to crack;
[between 1830 and 1834]
120
Promise, prayer, poetry
[ca. 1890?]
121
Fortune-telling wheels
circa 1870
122
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Das Kreisrätsel =
[between 1891 and 1900]
123
A peep at Windsor Terrace
ca. 1845]
124
Gaskell, Anna
[Peep show]
[2001]
125
[Transparent prints published by Rudolph Ackermann]
[1799]
126
E. R. T
The family coach
1868
127
Reynard, Francis
History made easy;
1817]
128
Polyorama, or Endless changes of landscapes
[1824?]
129
Historical pastime. A new game of the history of England
[ca. 1837]
130
The royal Windsor pair
[1840?]
131
Der Würfel in 6 verschiedenen Spielen =
[1850?]
132
H.M.S. Victory
[ca. 1950?]
133
Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks ... Book 11
1771
134
Changeable portraits of gentlemen
1819
135
Arithmetical lottery
[18--]
136
Don Quixote, or, The knight of the woeful countenance
[187-?]
137
Children's magical flowers
circa 1840
138
A brief account of the Thames Tunnel
[1854?]
139
The Rose Playhouse
2004
140
The Houses of Parliament
[ca. 1950?]
141
The Corsican brothers, or, The fatal duel
[between 1876 and 1917]
142
The quarters of the globe, or, Geographical dominoes
[ca. 1845?]
143
Fenby's patent Panteidoscope
[ca. 1885]
144
Varley, Delvalle Lowry
Chinese caricatures,
[1818]
145
The Myriopticon
[1868?]
146
Copper plate used to print an illustration of St. Uldibrand, in a scene from Undine
between 1840 and 1860?
147
The magic swans, or Feather'd conjurers
[between 1817 and 1839]
148
The royals
2012
149
Ali-Baba and the 40 thieves
[1881]
150
The deck of cards
1979
151
The fashionable Chinese puzzle
[between 1840 and 1850?]
152
Thomas De La Rue & Company
De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board
[187-?]
153
Green, James, 1771–1834
Picturesque geography
[1817?]
154
Wallis's tour through England and Wales,
1794
155
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Der Quälgeist =
[1891?]
156
Ellen, or, The naughty girl reclaimed
1811
157
Windsor pair
[183-?]
158
Newman, William
Moveable shadows
[1859]
159
Le jeu du cheval blanc
[ca. 1875?]
160
A new and original comic Christmas pantomime Sleeping Beauty in the wood!, or, Harlequin and the magic horn
[between 1876 and 1917]
161
Peachey, Emma
The little flower maker
[1869]
162
Spooner's Illustrated game of the steeple chase
December 1st 1852
163
Teleorama
[183-?]
164
Queer relations
[ca. 1960]
165
Camp of Aldershott
[18--]
166
The royal game of British sovereigns,
[1820]
167
Wallis's picturesque round game of the produce & manufactures,
[ca. 1840]
168
Hare, Elizabeth Sage
The world of tomorrow, New York World's Fair
1939]
169
Spooner, William, active 1831–1854
Spooner's protean views, no. 38
[ca. 1838?]
170
The blind boy
[between 1876 and 1917]
171
Wallis's new map of Europe
[ca. 1815]
172
First World War 1914-1918
[1999]
173
The game of the golden shield,
[1822]
174
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Myriorama : a collection of many thousand landscapes
1824
175
Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
176
Newton, T
The mansion of bliss
[1810]
177
Three micromodels of British made fighter bombers
[1943]
178
The laughable game of What d'ye buy,
[ca. 1850]
179
The earth and its jnhabitants [sic]
18--]
180
A view of the tunnel under the Thames,
1828
181
Faber, G. W
The unexpected alterations
[ca. 1845?]
182
Geographical recreation, or, A voyage round the habitable globe
publish'd Octr. 1st 1809
183
The doll and her dresses
[ca. 1870]
184
The royal geographical amusement, or, The European traveller
1770
185
The funnyshire fox chace
[ca. 1830?]
186
The British sovereigns, arranged as a game upon coloured cards
[between 1830 and 1837]
187
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
The portable diorama
1826
188
Wallis, J. (John), -1818
Wallis's tour of Europe
March 13th, 1811
189
View of St. James's Park
1831
190
The Historiscope
[1868]
191
The little embroiderer =
[mid-19th century?]
192
Wooden blocks for simulating the manoeuvres of a squadron of light horse
circa 1813
193
The magic ring
[between 1855 and 1870]
194
Three micromodels of famous historic locos
[1947]
195
George Philip & Son
Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland
[approximately 1910]
196
The areaorama
May 1, 1825
197
Paull, Margaret Agnes
The history of Little Fanny, illustrated by M.A. Colvile ... Craigflower
1845
198
Das Rheinthal
[approximately 1850]
199
Gliding
[1920s?]
200
Dioramic pages
[1869]
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