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Title(s)
The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.
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Additional Title(s)
Royal pastime of cupid
Entertaining game of the snake -
Published/Created
London : Published ... by Laurie & Whittle, no. 53, Fleet Street, 12th May 1794.
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Physical Description
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 38 x 46 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2021 1e
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Notes
Title from game board.
Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 14, 66
Selected exhibitions: "Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection" (Yale Center for British Art, 17 January-23 May, 2019).
"Referred to as a small/shell track format often compared to the Game of the goose, the ancient Egyptian game of the Snake may also have inspired this spiral design."--Liman. -
Subject Terms
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Form/Genre
Board games. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1794. | Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain.
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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