The mansion of bliss : a new game for the amusement of youth / by T. Newton ...
Alternate Title(s):
New game of The mansion of bliss
Published / Created:
London : Published by W. Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, 1822.
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 57 x 45 cm, folded to 19 x 11 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts GV1199 .N4 1822Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Title from game sheet. Date from accompanying booklet.First published in 1810.Mounted on linen, with 34 illustrations arranged in a spiral formation.Accompanied by a booklet of 16 pages, the title page of which reads: The new game of the mansion of bliss: in verse. By Tho. Newton. London : William Darton, 58, Holborn-Hill, 1822.Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 44-45Selected exhibitions: "Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection" (Yale Center for British Art, 17 January-23 May, 2019).BAC: British Art Center copy includes printed booklet and slipcase.Each numbered square has a moralizing rhyme for the players to read with rewards and penalties noted. The players who lands on square 20, for example, is a "Truant" and must lose his turn twice: "The truant to School must return, For such negligence cannot be look'd o'er; / And stay while each player turns twice,/ Then, perhaps, he'll be guilty no more." The winner was the first player to reach the "Mansion of Bliss" at the center of the board.
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)
Subject Terms:
Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature. | Educational games. | Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Board games. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1822.
