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Rare Books and Manuscripts
255
Creator
Peacock, W. (William), -1910
4
F. Ad. Richter & Co
3
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
2
Newton, T
2
Barry, D. T. (David Thomas)
1
Britains Ltd
1
C. H. E
1
C.W.S. Crumpsall & Cardiff Biscuits
1
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
1
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
1
Deacon, E
1
Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619–1682
1
E. R. T
1
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684–1756
1
Faber, G. W
1
Faulkner, Edrica, 1822–1890
1
Gaskell, Anna
1
Geographia Ltd
1
George Philip & Son
1
Ginot des Rois, Mlle
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Unknown
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
255
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Under Certain Circumstances
254
Free to Use
1
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255
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2023-2024
1
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
164
Books
54
Archives & Manuscripts
17
Maps & Atlas (printed)
6
Drawings & Watercolors
5
Prints
4
Videos
2
Kits
1
Periodicals
1
Creator Gender
unknown
255
Period
19th century
186
20th century
32
21st century
18
18th century
14
17th century
3
Materials & Techniques
engraving
1
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recreation
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255
game
136
lithograph
54
puzzle
33
tunnel book
19
playing card
18
toy
18
engraving
17
toy theater
17
chromolithograph
16
metamorphic picture
15
model
15
watercolor
15
board game
14
cut-paper work
13
drama
13
juvenile work
13
play
13
hand coloring
11
jigsaw puzzle
10
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Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
28
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
26
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
22
Amusements -- Great Britain.
21
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
15
Children's plays, English.
13
Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
10
Toy and movable books -- Specimens.
10
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
6
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
5
Card games -- Specimens -- Great Britain.
5
Clothing and dress.
5
Amusements -- 19th century.
4
Block building (Children's activity)
4
Educational games.
4
Europe -- Maps.
4
Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
4
Toy theaters.
4
Tunnels -- England -- London.
4
Wit and humor -- English.
4
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19th century
49
20th century
6
18th century
3
16th century
2
Associated Places
Great Britain
163
England
10
Europe
5
Germany
5
France
4
London
4
Thames Tunnel (London, England)
4
United States
4
Wales
4
Harrow
3
Scotland
3
America
2
Edinburgh (Scotland)
2
London (England)
2
Afria
1
Aldershot Camp
1
Arctic regions
1
Asia
1
Boppard (Germany)
1
Canada
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Associated People
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
4
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926–
3
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
3
Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
2
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
2
Adelaide, queen consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792–1849
1
Begaye, Mary Frances
1
Benn, Timothy, 1936–
1
Bloom, Louis (Electical Engineer)
1
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 1947–
1
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 1982–
1
Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948–
1
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656–1710
1
Colvile, Mary Louisa Eden, 1788–1858,
1
Comnena, Anna, 1083–
1
Cuchetti, Francesco
1
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
1
Dawson, Harry
1
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797–1848
1
Dundas, David, Sir, 1735–1820
1
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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)
56
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
20
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
1
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
1
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger Pattenden.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous gift
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alec Van Sinderen
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Jones
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Mockett
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of Harry Dawson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Clement
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David K. Thompson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Glenn Mitchell
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda Brownrigg; Friends of British Art Fund
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miko McGinty, Yale BA 1993, MFA 1998, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Florian.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan Brady
1
Language
English
219
German
20
French
6
Italian
2
No linguistic content
2
Undetermined
2
Dutch
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Multiple languages
1
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[All the bubbles]
[1720]
2
Visentini, Antonio, 1688–1782
[Biblical playing cards]
[1748]
3
The woodman's hut, or, The burning forest
[between 1876 and 1917]
4
The two riders =
[circa 1855?]
5
Changeable portraits of gentlemen
1819
6
Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks ... Book 11
1771
7
Don Quixote, or, The knight of the woeful countenance
[187-?]
8
Arithmetical lottery
[18--]
9
The latest and most fascinating geometrical puzzle
[late 19th c.?]
10
Fortune-telling wheels
circa 1870
11
Walker's tour through England and Wales
January 2nd 1809
12
H.M.S. Victory
[ca. 1950?]
13
Little Ben's first packet of puzzles
1806
14
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Das Kreisrätsel =
[between 1891 and 1900]
15
Peacock, W. (William), -1910
Peacock's Superior dissected maps
[between 1875 and 1909]
16
Nuts to crack;
[between 1830 and 1834]
17
Promise, prayer, poetry
[ca. 1890?]
18
The protean figure and metamorphic costumes
1811
19
The Houses of Parliament
[ca. 1950?]
20
Industrial exhibition of all nations
[1851]
21
The royal Windsor pair
[1840?]
22
Der Würfel in 6 verschiedenen Spielen =
[1850?]
23
Gaskell, Anna
[Peep show]
[2001]
24
The panorama of Europe, a new game
1815
25
Copper plate used to print an illustration of St. Uldibrand, in a scene from Undine
between 1840 and 1860?
26
Thomas De La Rue & Company
De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board
[187-?]
27
A peep at Windsor Terrace
ca. 1845]
28
Charades en actions
approximately 1820?
29
Pyramiden Spiel =
[ca. 1835?]
30
[Transparent prints published by Rudolph Ackermann]
[1799]
31
Sybilline leaves; or, Detector of the thoughts
[between 1819 and 1823]
32
E. R. T
The family coach
1868
33
Reynard, Francis
History made easy;
1817]
34
Polyorama, or Endless changes of landscapes
[1824?]
35
Historical pastime. A new game of the history of England
[ca. 1837]
36
The fashionable Chinese puzzle
[between 1840 and 1850?]
37
The Rose Playhouse
2004
38
The history of Little Fanny
1977
39
The royals
2012
40
A view of the tunnel under the Thames,
1828
41
The laughable game of What d'ye buy,
[ca. 1850]
42
The earth and its jnhabitants [sic]
18--]
43
Derby day
[2009]
44
International Exhibition of London, 1862
[circa 1862?]
45
The journey, or Cross roads to conqueror's castle
[between 1831 and 1837]
46
A survey of London, by a party of tarry-at-home travellers
[1820]
47
The magic ring
[approximately 1850]
48
Dutch historical card game
[approximately 1788]
49
Unterhaltendes Mosaic-Spiel =
[circa 1850?]
50
The endless landscape
[2---?]
51
Das Schloss zu Edinburg =
[1835?]
52
The showboat Cotton Blossom
[1952]
53
The Myriopticon
[1868]
54
Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
55
The Myriopticon
[1868?]
56
Newton, T
The mansion of bliss
[1810]
57
Twenty-four picture-cards which you can combine together 1,686,553,615,927,922,354,187,720 times
[approximately 1920]
58
Le jeu du cheval blanc
[ca. 1875?]
59
Peachey, Emma
The little flower maker
[1869]
60
Three micromodels of British made fighter bombers
[1943]
61
A new and original comic Christmas pantomime Sleeping Beauty in the wood!, or, Harlequin and the magic horn
[between 1876 and 1917]
62
Opie, Julian, born 1958
This is Shahnoza in 3 parts
2008
63
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Embossed picture cards
[1855?]
64
Art needlework
[ca. 1920?]
65
Pickering & Inglis
Promise box of Bible verses
late 19th century?
66
Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress
[between 1876 and 1917]
67
Gliding
[1920s?]
68
The Urania
[approximately 2004]
69
R. Journet & Co
The television puzzle
[approximately 1950]
70
The miller and his men
[between 1876 and 1917]
71
Wallis's New game of universal history and chronology
1814]
72
Geographical recreation, or, A voyage round the habitable globe
publish'd Octr. 1st 1809
73
Spooner's Changing drolleries
1844
74
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
The portable diorama
1826
75
Peacock, W. (William), -1910
Peacock's improved double dissection
[between 1875 and 1909]
76
The doll and her dresses
[ca. 1870]
77
The pretty young playful innocent lamb
[between 1819 and 1823]
78
Polyorama panoptique
1850s
79
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Poetry Box archive,
ca. 2001-2003
80
C.W.S. Crumpsall & Cardiff Biscuits
Biscuit tin
1920s?
81
Westminster Abbey
1953
82
A peep at the fox chace
1829
83
Contraband
[1950s?]
84
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Anne Rushout commonplace book
circa 1776-circa 1832
85
Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
86
[Geographical cards
16--]
87
Every man to his station
[between 1823 and 1847]
88
Das Rheinthal
[approximately 1850]
89
Schott, Ben, 1974–
Schott's sporting gaming & idling miscellany
c2004
90
Spelling alphabet
mid-19th century
91
The children in the wood
[between 1873 and 1892]
92
Spelling alphabet
mid-19th century
93
Smith, Sam, 1908–
Sam Smith collection,
1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979
94
The Battle of Waterloo
[between 1876 and 1917]
95
The magic swans, or Feather'd conjurers
[between 1817 and 1839]
96
Hare, Elizabeth Sage
The world of tomorrow, New York World's Fair
1939]
97
The royal game of British sovereigns,
[1820]
98
The blind boy
[between 1876 and 1917]
99
First World War 1914-1918
[1999]
100
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Myriorama : a collection of many thousand landscapes
1824
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