Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Snap.

Published / Created:

[London] : [John Jaques & Son], [ca. 1880?]

Physical Description:

1 game (64 cards) ; cards each 9.2 x 6 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 .S62 Flat
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

Illustrations by John Tenniel.

BAC: British Art Center copy incomplete: comprises 29 (of 64) cards, including 7 different sets.

"John Jaques introduced the game of Snap in 1866, using illustrations of 'grotesque characters' [by John Tenniel] as he had for Happy Families. Like Happy Families, Snap cards are arranged in groups, but each card in a group bears the same picture."--V&A, for a 1930 edition of the game.

Subject Terms:

Card games -- Specimens -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.

Form/Genre:

Playing cards. | Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Chromolithographs -- 1880.

Contributors:

Tenniel, John, 1820–1914, illustrator. | Jaques and Son (London, England), publisher. | Collection of Ellen and Arthur Liman (Yale Center for British Art)