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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Finlay, Alec
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J., Lottie
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Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734–1793
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Robinson, Mary Hester, 1832–1904
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Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
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Thomas De La Rue & Company
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Waddy Productions
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2005
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2023-2024
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Books
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Periodicals
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19th century
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18th century
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20th century
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21st century
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game
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recreation
17
board game
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lithograph
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engraving
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puzzle
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playing card
3
watercolor
3
card game
2
charade
2
chromolithograph
2
rebuse
2
riddle
2
acrostic
1
anagram
1
aquatint
1
armorial bookplates (provenance)
1
artists' book
1
board games (game sets)
1
botanical illustration
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Amusements -- Germany -- 19th century.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
4
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
3
Games -- Germany -- 19th century.
3
War games -- Specimens.
3
Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
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Games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
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Amateur theater -- Great Britain.
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Amusements -- France -- 19th century.
1
Amusements -- France.
1
Amusements.
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Artists' books -- Great Britain.
1
Blocks (Toys)
1
Board games -- Early works to 1800.
1
Card games -- France.
1
Cary, Mary Flagler -- Ownership.
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19th century
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18th century
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Great Britain
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England
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France
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Germany
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Great Britain Kings and rulers
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Margate
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Netherlands
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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North America
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Paris (France)
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Thanet (England)
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United States
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Wales
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Worcestershire (England)
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Associated People
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656–1710
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Comnena, Anna, 1083–
1
Garrick, David, 1717–1779
1
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1738–1800
1
Robinson, Mary Hester, 1832–1904
1
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
1
Exhibition History
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
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English
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German
5
French
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Dutch
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Fortune-telling wheels
circa 1870
2
[All the bubbles]
[1720]
3
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Anne Rushout commonplace book
circa 1776-circa 1832
4
Thomas De La Rue & Company
De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board
[187-?]
5
Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
6
Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
7
The two riders =
[circa 1855?]
8
Le jeu du cheval blanc
[ca. 1875?]
9
Finlay, Alec
Isle arcs, circles & ways
2005
10
Belagerungs Spiel
[mid-19th century]
11
Game tokens
late 19th century
12
A tour through the British colonies and foreign possessions
[1850s?]
13
Quelle nützlicher Beschäftigungen zum Vergnügen der Jugend
1852-
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Wallis's new railway game, or, Tour through England and Wales
[approximately 1844]
15
Nouvelles courses de Newmarchet, ou bien, La poste aux anes
[approximately 1825]
16
Unterhaltendes Mosaic-Spiel =
[circa 1850?]
17
Waddy Productions
"Physogs"
[between 1940 and 1949]
18
Dutch historical card game
[approximately 1788]
19
J., Lottie
Album of rebuses
1870
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Robinson, Mary Hester, 1832–1904
Charades, enigmas, riddles, and acrostics
1861
21
Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734–1793
The royal genealogical pastime of the sovereigns of England
Novr. 30th 1791
22
Game cards
19th century
23
Der Kopfzerbrecher
[approximately 1900]
24
Nouvelle chronologie des rois d'angleterre depuis Egbert jusqu'à George III
[approximately 1810]
25
Die Belagerung von Paris = The siege of Paris = La siège de Paris
[1871?]
26
Parlor game
ca. 1831
27
Belagerungs-Spiel = The game of siege = Jeu de siege
[mid-19th century?]
28
The poets
ca. [1861?]