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Title(s):

Amusement in English history. A game exhibiting the most remarkable events from the time of the Britons.

Published/Created:
[s.l., ca. 1841]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 51 x 65 cm., fold. to 21 x 18 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 A43
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
In attached covers, from whence the title.
Imprint date from: Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of Georgian and Victorian days. Royston, Herts., 1971, p. 95. According to Mr. Whitehouse, the publisher may be William Sallis.
A faint legend in the lower right hand corner may read: Designed & lith. by Thos. Turner.
In 12 sections, mounted on canvas.
Cottage of content, or, Toys, games, and amusements of nineteenth century England, 26
Selected exhibitions: “The Cottage of Content : or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England" (Yale Center for British Art, November 2 - December 31, 1977).
Form/Genre:
Games -- Great Britain.
Recreations -- Great Britain.
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Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]


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