Crowned heads, or, Contemporary sovereigns : an instructive game.
Alternate Title(s):
Crowned heads
Published / Created:
London : Published by David Ogilvy at his repository of rational toys & amusements, [ca. 1845?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 56 x 76 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts GV1199 .C76 1845 Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 110-113Selected 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 original game cards.The gameboard is accompanied by: eight printed cards corresponding to the reigns of "crowned heads" from William III to Victoria; 40 small cards describing notable events; three cards to pay one counter to pool; one printed "Key to game" matching five notable events for each of the eight reigns.
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:
Educational games. | Geographical recreations -- Specimens. | Europe -- Maps. | Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Board games. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1845. | Maps -- Europe.
