Yale Center for British Art

Title:

100 neueste Charakter-Bilder = 100 new character-pictures = Nuovas imagenes caracteristicas = Nouvelles images caracteristicas.

Alternate Title(s):

100 new character-pictures

Published / Created:

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1865?]

Physical Description:

1 game (30 pieces) ; in box 15 x 10 x 2 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 .H86 1865
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

Issued in a paperboard box, the top of which bears the illustrated title label.

BAC: British Art Center copy complete, except for a partial loss of an arm one of the X-shaped pieces. In publisher's original illustrated box.

Game comprised of 6 puzzles, with interchangeable pieces. Each of the 6 puzzles (hand-colored lithographs, on paper board) consists of a scene depicting a man and a woman, facing eachother. Each scene is cut into five pieces: a large X-shaped central piece, and four half-circle cut-aways, containing: (1) the pair of heads; (2) the torso of the man at left; (3) the torso of the woman at right; (4) the pair of legs. Each half-circle piece may be interchanged with corresponding pieces from other scenes, to create new (and sometimes whimsical) combinations.

Subject Terms:

Toys -- Germany -- 19th century. | Amusements -- Germany -- 19th century. | Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Clothing and dress -- Germany. | Fashion -- Germany.

Form/Genre:

Puzzles. | Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1865.