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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Cockburn, Julie
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Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
2
Walker, Augustine
2
Winsor & Newton
2
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
1
Andras, Catherine, 1775–1860
1
Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)
1
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617
1
Bowers, George Frederick
1
Brendel, Robert, approximately 1821–1898
1
Brown, Hannah (Bookbinder)
1
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
1
Bush, Tracey
1
C. Goodall & Son
1
Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
1
Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857
1
Dennis, Sarah, 1712–1761
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Dilnot, John
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Evans, Henry Smith
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19th century
97
18th century
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21st century
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20th century
9
17th century
6
16th century
1
Materials & Techniques
ceramic (material)
12
throwing (pottery technique)
11
wood
10
wood engraving (process)
10
cardboard
2
glue
2
polychromy
1
transfer printing
1
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recreation
57
game
48
lithograph
36
board game
31
play
23
toy theater
23
engraving
16
ceramic (material)
13
cut-paper work
13
delftware
11
drug jar
11
tin glaze
10
wood blocks (printing blocks)
10
artists' book
7
playing card
7
map
6
optical instrument
5
artists' material
4
ephemera
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model
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Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
30
Children's plays, English.
23
Ballads, English -- Juvenile drama.
20
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
10
Women in natural history.
9
Educational games.
7
Conduct of life.
6
Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
6
Educational games -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
5
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.
4
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
4
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
3
Black people in art.
3
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
3
Great Britain. Royal Navy.
3
Slave trade -- Great Britain.
3
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
3
Altered books -- Specimens.
2
Amusements -- Great Britain.
2
Architecture.
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17th century
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18th century
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20th century
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Great Britain
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England
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Europe
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France
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Italy
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America
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Asia
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China
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Creswell Crags (England)
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India
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Isle of Wight
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Jerusalem
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London
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London (England)
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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
1
Brendel, Robert, approximately 1821–1898
1
Brown, George, Sir, 1790–1865
1
Bruce, Rose, 1728–1806
1
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret, 1807–1834
1
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
1
Elsie, Lily, 1886–1962
1
Fall, Leo, 1873–1925
1
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830
1
Gould, John, 1804–1881
1
Hackwood, William, 1757–1839
1
Heracles (Greek mythological character)
1
Jaques and Son (London, England)
1
Jupiter (Roman deity)
1
Leigh, Percival, 1813–1889
1
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
1
Palmer, John, 1742–1818
1
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746–1827
1
Pidcock, Gilbert
1
Poets, Japanese
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Exhibition History
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
14
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
9
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
8
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
6
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
5
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11)
2
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08)
2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
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
29
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
2
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale PhD, American Studies, 1985; Janice Neri (1970-2016), who worked with Meyers (as a predoctoral research assistant) at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens; and Neri's family
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Isaac Gunsberg and Oliver Melnick, and their families
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Leslie Zirinsky Melnick and her family
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louis G. Audette, Yale BA 1962, BFA 1963, MS 1965
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy and Robert Lindemeyer.
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No linguistic content
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Latin
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French
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Italian
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Japanese
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Polish
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Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings
[ca. 1815?]
2
Whitehead & Hoag Company (Newark, N.J.)
Diamond Jubilee souvenir badge
[1897?]
3
Jonathan Bradford, or, The murder at the road side inn
[between 1835-1837]
4
The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich
[approximately 1825]
5
Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
6
The red rover
[between 1835-1837]
7
Ointment pot
between 1650 and 1700
8
L'orient, or, The Indian travellers : a geographical and historical game
[1846]
9
The forty thieves
[between 1837-1840]
10
The noble game of the elephant and castle,
1822
11
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie (London, England)
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie farthing token
[approximately 1800]
12
Wet drug jar
between 1700 and 1725
13
Bowers, George Frederick
Crimean War
1856?
14
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617
The destruction of the Spanish Armada
1588
15
Dean's steam-boat alphabet
[1855?]
16
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose
[between 1761 and 1794]
17
The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways
1848
18
Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of art, in each quarter of the world
[ca. 1820]
19
Underwood & Underwood
Sun Sculpture stereoscope
not before 1901
20
Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857
Medal commemorating the abolition of the apprenticeship system in the British West Indies
1838
21
The brigand
[between 1840-1850]
22
[Teleorama]
[approximately 1825?]
23
Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787
24
Uncle Tom's cabin
1852
25
Dry drug jar
circa 1750
26
Specimens of articles in common use
between 1840 and 1860?
27
[The Popish Plot]
[1679?]
28
Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds
1830s?
29
The miller's maid
[between 1840 and 1850]
30
Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain
1868
31
Brendel, Robert, approximately 1821–1898
Model of Brassica napus
approximately 1880
32
Wet drug jar
circa 1750
33
Game of the Great Exhibition of 1851
[1851]
34
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
The poetry box
[2003]
35
Till the boys come home
1914 or 1915
36
Cockburn, Julie
Butterflies
2004
37
The battles of Balaklava and Inkerman
[1855]
38
Pizarro
[between 1850--1862]
39
Wyon, Edward William, 1811?-1885
Tazza, with representation of Heracles and the Garden of the Hesperides
1851
40
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
The natuorama; or Endless transposition of views on the Thames ... The drawings taken from nature,
[1825]
41
Cut-paper flower arrangements
London?,
42
Wet drug jar
circa 1750
43
Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787
44
Blue beard
[1861]
45
The magic ring
November 1st, 1796
46
Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Fantascope
1833
47
The Woodman's hut
[between 1837-1840]1
48
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
King Richard II
[not after 1828]
49
Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
Moka
2004
50
Bush, Tracey
British butterflies
[2004]
51
Wallis's tour of Europe
Nov. 24th, 1794
52
Winsor & Newton
Ever pointed tubular drawing pencils
[1858?]
53
Aladdin, or, The Wonderful lamp
[between 1876 and 1917]
54
Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset
ca. 1855
55
Cobweb three-dimensional watercolor
56
Cockburn, Julie
[Beetles book]
[2002]
57
W.T. Copeland & Sons
Portrait plate of Albert Smith
circa [1859?]
58
Dry drug jar
circa 1740
59
Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
The paths of life
[circa 1840]
60
The wonders of the world
[ca. 1843]
61
Brown, Hannah (Bookbinder)
Butterflies
made in 2011
62
Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho
[approximately 1855]
63
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments
1810?
64
Wood, Charles H., fl. 1840–1870
[Engraved shell depicting the Great Eastern steamship]
[ca. 1859]
65
Reeves & Sons (London, England)
Box of pigments and implements for painting on china
ca. 1880
66
Memento mori ring
1689
67
Harlequin & little Tom Tucker
[between 1835-1837]
68
Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)
[Original Calverley cigarette packet manufactured by Bacon Brothers of Cambridge England]
[approximately 1930]
69
Harlequin and Old Dame Trot
[between 1837-1840]
70
Game of the star-spangled banner,
[between 1842 and 1845]
71
Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
Lambretta Li 125
2004
72
La Fontaine in the game of the goose
[ca. 1810]
73
J.S. Fry & Sons
Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie
ca. 1909
74
Sallis, William, 1782–1865
Sallis's comic play grammar
[ca. 1850?]
75
Newton, T
The mansion of bliss
1822
76
The destruction of Jerusalem
[ca. 1824?]
77
Winsor & Newton
Pocket watercolor box
[not before 1832]
78
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
The dove and the bee
1818?
79
Universal building-blocks box =
[late 19th century?]
80
Happy families
[186-?]
81
C. Goodall & Son
Goodall's Royal Bezique register
[approximately 1900]
82
The family coach
[1851]
83
Wet drug jar
circa 1660
84
Der freischutz
[between 1840-1850]
85
Dry drug jar
circa 1750
86
Mazeppa
[between 1837-1840]
87
Hyakunin isshu karuta
late 18th century?
88
An arithmetical pastime
April 19th, 1798
89
Wet drug jar
between 1675 and 1680
90
The Royal Regatta
[ca. 1852?]
91
The "Easion" veil
[approximately 1900]
92
Walkers' tour through France
1815
93
Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a woman and a sister?"
circa 1835
94
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Kittiwake or annett
1804?
95
Guy Fawkes
[1854]
96
Model of HMS Victory
2018
97
The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake
12th May 1794
98
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
The shepherd's boy and the wolf
1818?
99
Negretti & Zambra
Stereographoscope
ca. 1875
100
The maid and the magpie
[between 1876 and 1917]
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