Yale Center for British Art

Title:

La Fontaine in the game of the goose.

Published / Created:

[Paris? : s.n.], [ca. 1810].

Physical Description:

1 sheet : ill. ; 37 x 43 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm. + 1 booklet ([8] leaves ; 12 cm)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 L23 1810
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Related Content:

View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:582303

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

In case made from old flowered paper, with engraved labels that read: Le prix de sagesse. A Paris : Chez Demoure [?], Rue Christine, No. 2.

"This sheet represents 63 vignettes, each of which refers to a moral stanza taken from the of [sic] La Fontaine's Fables. Translated by M. Thomson ..."

Accompanying booklet has a rhyme for each move.

Whitehouse (p. 97) lists a game of the same title published by William Darton, ca. 1820.

Subject Terms:

Demoure -- Publisher. | Fables. | Lithography -- Specimens -- [ca. 1810].

Form/Genre:

Games -- Great Britain. | Recreations -- Great Britain.

Contributors:

La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621–1695. Fables. | Thomson, Robert.