Date from Allemagne.
Game board for the Game of Goose, a game of chance, played with two dice. Sixty-three numbered rectangular spaces are arranged in two concentric, counter-clockwise tracks that lead into an oval space depicting a family at dinner with a cooked goose on the table, and a view through the window of a goose-hunting scene. In the four corners depictions of three grotesque figures and a figure carrying a goose and a pot on a long stick. Some spaces have images, thirteen of which are favorable spaces depicting geese, while others are hazard spaces depicting a well, a maze, and Death.
Directions for play are scattered throughout.
Hand colored in brown, green, and orange.
"N. 25"--black ink on verso.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Il Dilettevole Gioco di Loca [game]
Accession number:
PML 88595
Published:
In Venecia : apresso Carlo Coriolani, [1640?]
Description:
1 sheet : ill. (handcol. woodcuts) 60 x 45.5 cm
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
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Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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