Accession number:
PML 88489
Published:
Paris : H. Rousseau, Edit., [ca. 1840]
Description:
1 game : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 27 x 33 x 4 cm (box)
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
A game of 36 wooden cards covered with hand-colored, lithographed partial images of human figures in costumes of various sorts, and a small basket. When assembled correctly, the cards make six figures: pierrot, a soldier in a blue uniform, a knight in armor, an African with a pipe, a lady with a mask, and a politician in top hat.
With a sheet of rules in French, printed by Appert - Vavasseur, passage du Caire, 54-84.
"Lith. H. Jannin, Paris"-- lid of box.
Lithograph on the lid is signed: Bonnier.
"ott.lu 9f."--label pasted inside lid.
Binding:
Publisher's blue and gilt-rimmed cartonnage box with color lithograph pasted on the lid, depicting a family scene with children playing the game, and with the title in French, English, and Spanish stamped in black ink.
Variant Title:
Game of antroposkise.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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