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The British tourist : a new game.

[1830s?]

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The British tourist : a new game, London : Published by E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, [1830s?], Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957.
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  • Title(s)

    The British tourist : a new game.

  • Additional Title(s)

    Slipcase title: Wallis's New game of the tourist, exhibiting 65 select views in the British Empire
    New game of the tourist, exhibiting 65 select views in the British Empire

  • Published/Created

    London : Published by E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, [1830s?]

  • Physical Description

    1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 50 x 63 cm, folded to 22 x 13 cm, in slipcase 22 x 14 cm

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    GV1199 .H75 1830
    Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Copyright Status

    Copyright Not Evaluated

  • Full YALE Library Record

    https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/99136914153408651

  • Classification

    Three-Dimensional Artifacts

  • Notes

    Title and imprint from game board.
    Date based on style of printing and illustration.
    Game consists of a track of 65 hand-colored, illustrated panels.
    Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 176-177
    Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of Georgian and Victorian days, page 43
    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).
    BAC: British Art Center copy includes instruction booklet and slipcase.
    Despite the fact that the slipcase indicates that the game includes "65 Select Views in the British Empire"--implying a broader world-view--it actually focuses on castles, country houses, and other tourist sites solely in Britain. Players would move around the board, learning facts of the place illustrated in the square where they landed. The winner would be the first to arrive at 'His Majesty's Cottage, Windsor' (65), the residence of George IV.

  • Subject Terms

    Great Britain -- Description and travel. |
    Historic buildings -- Great Britain. |
    Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance. |
    Tourism -- Great Britain.

  • Form/Genre

    Board games. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1830. | Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain.

  • Contributors

    Wallis, Edward

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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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