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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Cockburn, Julie
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Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
2
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
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Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)
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Brown, Hannah (Bookbinder)
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Bush, Tracey
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Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
1
Dilnot, John
1
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
1
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
1
Newton, T
1
Percy, Samuel, approximately 1753–1819
1
Sutton, Emily, 1983–
1
Underwood & Underwood
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Wood, Charles H., fl. 1840–1870
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Period
19th century
30
21st century
11
18th century
8
20th century
3
17th century
1
Materials & Techniques
cardboard
2
glue
2
Work Type
recreation
29
game
26
board game
22
engraving
11
cut-paper work
8
lithograph
8
artists' book
7
playing card
4
altered book
3
map
3
botanical illustration
2
ephemera
2
fobs (objects)
2
human hair
2
rings (jewelry)
2
sculpture (visual works)
2
seals (artifacts)
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accordion-fold format (binding)
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albums (books)
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artists' material
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Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
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Women in natural history.
7
Paper work -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
6
Educational games.
5
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
5
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
4
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
3
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.
3
Black people in art.
3
Educational games -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
3
Slave trade -- Great Britain.
3
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
3
Altered books -- Specimens.
2
Architecture.
2
Butterflies in art.
2
Conduct of life.
2
Europe -- Maps.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Historic buildings.
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Historic sites.
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19th century
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17th century
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Associated Places
Great Britain
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Europe
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Creswell Crags (England)
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England
1
Isle of Wight
1
Japan
1
Jerusalem
1
London
1
Solent Channel (England)
1
Associated People
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
1
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret, 1807–1834
1
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
1
Hackwood, William, 1757–1839
1
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
1
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746–1827
1
Poets, Japanese
1
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)
12
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
6
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
3
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
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
1
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
21
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
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 George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louis G. Audette, Yale BA 1962, BFA 1963, MS 1965
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy and Robert Lindemeyer.
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Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
1
Language
English
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No linguistic content
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Japanese
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Polish
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Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of art, in each quarter of the world
[ca. 1820]
2
The destruction of Jerusalem
[ca. 1824?]
3
Cockburn, Julie
Butterflies
2004
4
Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868
The paths of life
[circa 1840]
5
The wonders of the world
[ca. 1843]
6
Newton, T
The mansion of bliss
1822
7
Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho
[approximately 1855]
8
Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
Lambretta Li 125
2004
9
Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain
1868
10
Wallis's tour of Europe
Nov. 24th, 1794
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Gilmour, Chris, 1973–
Moka
2004
12
Game of the Great Exhibition of 1851
[1851]
13
The magic ring
November 1st, 1796
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Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
15
Brown, Hannah (Bookbinder)
Butterflies
made in 2011
16
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
The poetry box
[2003]
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Underwood & Underwood
Sun Sculpture stereoscope
not before 1901
18
The combat with the giant
September 1st, 1796
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The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake
12th May 1794
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Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of nature in each quarter of the world
1st Novr. 1818
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The Royal Regatta
[ca. 1852?]
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The British tourist
[1830s?]
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Model of HMS Victory
2018
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The new game of the multiplication table
[between 1830 and 1832]
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Royal race course
[ca. 1845?]
26
Forget me not bookmark
ca. 1870?
27
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Jug with hunting scenes after George Stubbs
ca. 1780
28
The hare and the tortoise
Novr. 5th. 1849
29
Crowned heads, or, Contemporary sovereigns
[ca. 1845?]
30
Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy
[1804]
31
The mirror of truth
Jany. 1st, 1811
32
Laurie's new and entertaining game of the golden goose
[1831]
33
Memento mori ring
1689
34
Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings
[ca. 1815?]
35
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments
1810?
36
Bush, Tracey
British butterflies
[2004]
37
Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)
[Original Calverley cigarette packet manufactured by Bacon Brothers of Cambridge England]
[approximately 1930]
38
Hyakunin isshu karuta
late 18th century?
39
Universal building-blocks box =
[late 19th century?]
40
Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787
41
Wood, Charles H., fl. 1840–1870
[Engraved shell depicting the Great Eastern steamship]
[ca. 1859]
42
Specimens of articles in common use
between 1840 and 1860?
43
Cockburn, Julie
[Beetles book]
[2002]
44
Percy, Samuel, approximately 1753–1819
Horatio Nelson
circa 1810
45
Naval woolwork
1891
46
Sutton, Emily, 1983–
Robin on a crabapple branch
2008
47
Trafalgar
[early 20th century]
48
Cut-paper basket
Great Britain,
49
Dilnot, John
Moth collection
2013
50
Cockburn, Julie
[Flower book
[2005]
51
Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787
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Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a woman and a sister?"
circa 1835
53
Court game of geography
[between 1838 and 1855]