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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
F. Ad. Richter & Co
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F. Ad. Richter & Co.
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Barry, D. T. (David Thomas)
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E. R. T
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Peachey, Emma
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R. S. W
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1804
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1892
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Books
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Archives & Manuscripts
1
Drawings & Watercolors
1
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unknown
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19th century
27
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recreation
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game
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lithograph
11
puzzle
8
toy
7
building block
6
tangram
5
chromolithograph
4
aquatint
2
board game
2
educational game
2
metamorphic picture
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
1
card game
1
chromoithograph
1
dissection puzzle
1
dominoes (game)
1
engraving
1
etching
1
guidebook
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
19
Block building (Children's activity)
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Amusements -- Germany -- 19th century.
2
Crystal Palace (Great Exhibition, 1851, London, England)
2
Games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
2
Geographical recreations -- Specimens.
2
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher
1
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861.
1
Astronomers -- Study and teaching.
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Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
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Birds.
1
Birdsongs.
1
Board games -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
1
Bridges -- England -- London.
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British -- India.
1
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
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Church Missionary Society -- India.
1
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain.
1
Commedia dell'arte.
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19th century
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Great Britain
26
Egypt
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Germany
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India
1
Liverpool
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Waterloo Bridge (London, England)
1
Associated People
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
1
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797–1848
1
Powers, Hiram, 1805–1873
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Saunders, Erasmus, 1812–1872
1
Saunders, Sophia
1
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
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
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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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
1
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English
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German
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Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings
[ca. 1815?]
2
Universal building-blocks box =
[late 19th century?]
3
Paper doll
approximately 1830?
4
Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy
[1804]
5
Dean's new magic picture book
[between 1857 and 1865]
6
The two riders =
[circa 1855?]
7
E. R. T
The family coach
1868
8
The quarters of the globe, or, Geographical dominoes
[ca. 1845?]
9
Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties
1830
10
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Der Quälgeist =
[1891?]
11
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
Der Kopfzerbrecher =
[1891 or 1892]
12
The changing companions
[ca. 1860?]
13
Peachey, Emma
The little flower maker
[1869]
14
The fashionable Chinese puzzle
[between 1840 and 1850?]
15
Industrial exhibition of all nations
[1851]
16
Pyramiden Spiel =
[ca. 1835?]
17
Der Würfel in 6 verschiedenen Spielen =
[1850?]
18
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Das Kreisrätsel =
[between 1891 and 1900]
19
Barry, D. T. (David Thomas)
Travelling game of India
1858
20
The magic ring
[between 1855 and 1870]
21
Waterloo Bridge dissected into 151 pieces
[ca. 1830?]
22
F. Ad. Richter & Co
Patent stone building box no. 5
[approximately 1885]
23
F. Ad. Richter & Co.
Der Kreuzzerbrecher =
[1892]
24
The bird-catcher
1857
25
R. S. W
Crystal Palace
[late 19th century]
26
Orientalisches parquetspiel = Jeu de parquet oriental = The play of Oriental inlaid work
[approximately 1835?]
27
Fables in action
1820