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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Books
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19th century
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game
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lithograph
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board game
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metamorphic picture
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paper doll
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puzzle
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toy
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watercolor
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aquatint
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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botanical illustration
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caricature
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commonplace book
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engraving
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graphite drawing
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humorous picture
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ink drawing
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Amusements -- 19th century.
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Dresses -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Anstee, Paul -- Provenance.
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Clothing and dress.
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Fashion.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
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Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792–1849 -- Pictorial works.
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Amusements -- Germany -- 19th century.
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Berger, G. -- Publisher.
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Clothing and dress -- Great Britain.
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Country life.
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Court-plaster.
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Curteis, Edward B. H. -- Pres. inscrip. from Uncle & Aunt Forbes, May 31, 1841.
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English poetry -- 18th century.
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Fairburn, J. -- Publisher.
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Fairs.
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Great Britain
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Germany
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Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792–1849
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William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765–1837
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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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Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
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English
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Paper doll
approximately 1830?
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The new game of the multiplication table
[between 1830 and 1832]
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The British tourist
[1830s?]
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Nuts to crack;
[between 1830 and 1834]
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Windsor pair
[183-?]
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The funnyshire fox chace
[ca. 1830?]
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The British sovereigns, arranged as a game upon coloured cards
[between 1830 and 1837]
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Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
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Commonplace book
circa 1830
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Neue Damen Costüme =
1850s?
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[Transforming head
[circa 1830]
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Orientalisches parquetspiel = Jeu de parquet oriental = The play of Oriental inlaid work
[approximately 1835?]
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Der Gang zur Kirchweihe =
[mid-19th century]
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Molly's favourite doll =
[ca. 1850]
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[Transforming head
[circa 1830]