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Rare Books and Manuscripts
60
Creator
F. Ad. Richter & Co
3
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
2
Barry, D. T. (David Thomas)
1
Deacon, E
1
E. R. T
1
Faber, G. W
1
Ginot des Rois, Mlle
1
Newman, William
1
Peachey, Emma
1
R. M
1
R. S. W
1
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
1
Soulby, W. H
1
Thomas De La Rue & Company
1
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1770
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2005
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
60
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
56
Free to Use
4
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Unavailable
49
Available
11
Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
39
Books
10
Prints
4
Archives & Manuscripts
3
Drawings & Watercolors
2
Creator Gender
unknown
60
Period
19th century
56
18th century
2
20th century
1
21st century
1
Work Type
recreation
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60
game
33
lithograph
23
puzzle
11
chromolithograph
10
toy
10
building block
6
board game
5
metamorphic picture
5
tangram
5
cut-paper work
4
ephemera
4
greeting card
4
paper doll
4
playing card
4
paperwork (crafts)
3
aquatint
2
birthday card
2
board games (game sets)
2
botanical illustration
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
34
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
27
Block building (Children's activity)
5
Amusements -- 19th century.
4
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
4
Amusements -- Germany -- 19th century.
3
Clothing and dress.
3
Cut-out craft -- Great Britain.
3
Dresses -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
3
Horse racing -- Amusements.
3
Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
3
Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
3
Toy and movable books -- Specimens.
3
Birthday cards -- Specimens.
2
Card games -- Specimens -- Great Britain.
2
Children.
2
Crystal Palace (Great Exhibition, 1851, London, England)
2
Educational games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
2
Fashion.
2
Games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Associated Places
Great Britain
49
France
3
United States
3
Germany
2
Dublin (Ireland)
1
Edinburgh (Scotland)
1
Egypt
1
Fyfield (England : Hampshire)
1
Glasgow (Scotland)
1
Great Britain 19th century
1
Harrow
1
India
1
Liverpool
1
Waterloo Bridge (London, England)
1
Associated People
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
1
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797–1848
1
Hood, Alexander, 1758–1796
1
Jaques and Son (London, England)
1
Powers, Hiram, 1805–1873
1
Saunders, Erasmus, 1812–1872
1
Saunders, Sophia
1
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
1
Exhibition History
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
3
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
2
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
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
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger Pattenden.
1
Language
English
44
German
12
French
2
Multiple languages
1
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Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings
[ca. 1815?]
2
Universal building-blocks box =
[late 19th century?]
3
Happy may they birthday be
[1880?]
4
Many happy returns of the day
[approximately 1880]
5
R. M
The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798
1799
6
Happy families
[186-?]
7
Paper doll
approximately 1830?
8
With love and good wishes for a happy New Year
[1880?]
9
Dean's new magic picture book
[between 1857 and 1865]
10
Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy
[1804]
11
[Metallic cut paper greeting card]
[approximately 1880]
12
Pyramiden Spiel =
[ca. 1835?]
13
The two riders =
[circa 1855?]
14
Der Würfel in 6 verschiedenen Spielen =
[1850?]
15
Industrial exhibition of all nations
[1851]
16
The quarters of the globe, or, Geographical dominoes
[ca. 1845?]
17
Le jeu du cheval blanc
[ca. 1875?]
18
Spooner's Illustrated game of the steeple chase
December 1st 1852
19
E. R. T
The family coach
1868
20
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Das Kreisrätsel =
[between 1891 and 1900]
21
Spooner's Changing drolleries
1844
22
Soulby, W. H
The surprise art album
[1900]
23
Barry, D. T. (David Thomas)
Travelling game of India
1858
24
Faber, G. W
The unexpected alterations
[ca. 1845?]
25
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
2005
26
The Myriopticon
[1868?]
27
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Der Quälgeist =
[1891?]
28
Newman, William
Moveable shadows
[1859]
29
The fashionable Chinese puzzle
[between 1840 and 1850?]
30
Thomas De La Rue & Company
De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board
[187-?]
31
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Embossed picture cards
[1855?]
32
Peachey, Emma
The little flower maker
[1869]
33
The changing companions
[ca. 1860?]
34
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
Der Kopfzerbrecher =
[1891 or 1892]
35
Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
36
The magic ring
[approximately 1850]
37
The Myriopticon
[1868]
38
The royal geographical amusement, or, The European traveller
1770
39
The magic ring
[between 1855 and 1870]
40
The funnyshire fox chace
[ca. 1830?]
41
Neue Damen Costüme =
1850s?
42
Waterloo Bridge dissected into 151 pieces
[ca. 1830?]
43
Deacon, E
Odds & ends
1836
44
Juvenile games, for the four seasons
[not before 1819]
45
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
Der Kreuzzerbrecher =
[1892]
46
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Patent stone building box no. 5
[approximately 1885]
47
Molly's favourite doll =
[ca. 1850]
48
The bird-catcher
1857
49
Der Gang zur Kirchweihe =
[mid-19th century]
50
Neues Aufstellfiguren-Spiel
[ca. 1865?]
51
Snap
[ca. 1880?]
52
100 neueste Charakter-Bilder =
[approximately 1865?]
53
Schoolroom magazine
1892
54
Quartetts of the royal family of England
[between 1860 and 1865?]
55
R. S. W
Crystal Palace
[late 19th century]
56
Ginot des Rois, Mlle
Jeu des petits voyageurs aux cinq parties du monde, ou, Enseignement mutuel de géographie descriptive et historique
1828
57
Orientalisches parquetspiel = Jeu de parquet oriental = The play of Oriental inlaid work
[approximately 1835?]
58
Fables in action
1820
59
The game of spellicans
[ca. 1880?]
60
The steeple-chase game
[1860]