Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Geographische Studien.

Published / Created:

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [circa 1870]

Physical Description:

1 puzzle (22 pieces) : wood ; 14 cm in diameter, in box 17 x 22 x 12 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1507.J5 G46 1870 Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

Issue in a wooden box, the top lid of which bears a lithographed image (with game title) of a tutor instructing two students.

BAC: British Art Center copy in original wooden box with illustrated label on lid. Original metal latches and hinges.

Geographical puzzle in 22 wooden pieces which, when fully assembled, forms a complete globe (14 cm in diameter). The globe is dissected into six horizontal layers; the four middle layers are further cut into pie-shaped pieces. The internal surfaces of each layer also bear maps and images describing the various continents.

Undated. The maps correspond to political boundaries ca. 1870.

Subject Terms:

Geography -- Study and teaching. | Geographical recreations -- Specimens.

Form/Genre:

Dissection puzzles. | Puzzles. | Globes. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1870? | Boxes (Containers)