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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Books
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unknown
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Period
19th century
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recreation
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game
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tunnel book
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etching
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bone (material)
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boxes (containers)
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hand coloring
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board game
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building block
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engraving
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love poetry
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myriorama
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toy
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Subject Terms
Alphabet.
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Educational games -- Specimens.
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Reading -- Aids and devices -- Specimens.
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Reading games -- Specimens.
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Spelling games -- Specimens.
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Thames Tunnel (London, England)
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Tunnels -- England -- London.
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Amusements.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain.
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Block building (Children's activity)
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Blocks (Toys)
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Catholic Church -- Customs and practices.
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Church buildings -- Pictorial works.
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Courtship -- Great Britain.
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Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Flirting -- Great Britain.
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Great Britain
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Thames Tunnel (London, England)
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Egypt
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Regent's Park (London, England)
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Thames River (England)
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Associated People
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830
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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)
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Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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English
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French
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German
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The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich
[approximately 1825]
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Perspectivische Ansicht des Tunnels unter der Themse
ca. 1825]
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Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
The natuorama; or Endless transposition of views on the Thames ... The drawings taken from nature,
[1825]
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Pyramiden Spiel =
[ca. 1835?]
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Perspective view of the tunnel now making under the Thames,
1825
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Spelling alphabet
mid-19th century
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The areaorama
May 1, 1825
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Flirting game
mid-19th century
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Unterhaltendes Mosaic-Spiel =
[circa 1850?]
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Spelling alphabet
mid-19th century
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Optique no. 2
[ca. 1825]