Accession number
PML 88488
Published
Germany, [1870]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Date printed on the theater.
The set includes a three part folded theater representing a cavern to be placed on a board with slots, and another board with four wheels and three slots for moving a wagon and a wheel-barrow across the stage. A pink paper folder contains a total of 19 original cut-out, hand-colored figures: three chairs and two tables, one wagon, one wheel-barrow, a shovel and a pick-axe. Ten dressed animals with moveable arms include Mr. and Mrs. Hare, two rabbits to pull the wagon and a third for a grashopper to ride on, one mouse, one weasel, one hamster, and one mole. In addition, there are 9 smaller chromo-lithographed figures, which do not belong to the set: three cats, three dogs, one bird, and two bouquets of flowers.
Also included: one folded sheet with a description, in German, French and English, of the set and a story to be performed: Mrs. Hare suggests to Mr. Hare that they invite their acquaintances to a reception of food and drink. The animals arrive in the wagon, and are seated around the dinner table. The conversation on life's difficulties, is interrupted by the appearance of the weasel, who scares everybody away, except the hamster, who is killed by the weasel. Mr. Hare transports the dead hamster in the wheel-barrow into the woods and buries him there.
The set includes a three part folded theater representing a cavern to be placed on a board with slots, and another board with four wheels and three slots for moving a wagon and a wheel-barrow across the stage. A pink paper folder contains a total of 19 original cut-out, hand-colored figures: three chairs and two tables, one wagon, one wheel-barrow, a shovel and a pick-axe. Ten dressed animals with moveable arms include Mr. and Mrs. Hare, two rabbits to pull the wagon and a third for a grashopper to ride on, one mouse, one weasel, one hamster, and one mole. In addition, there are 9 smaller chromo-lithographed figures, which do not belong to the set: three cats, three dogs, one bird, and two bouquets of flowers.
Also included: one folded sheet with a description, in German, French and English, of the set and a story to be performed: Mrs. Hare suggests to Mr. Hare that they invite their acquaintances to a reception of food and drink. The animals arrive in the wagon, and are seated around the dinner table. The conversation on life's difficulties, is interrupted by the appearance of the weasel, who scares everybody away, except the hamster, who is killed by the weasel. Mr. Hare transports the dead hamster in the wheel-barrow into the woods and buries him there.
Description
1 game : ill. (lithographs) ; 26.5 x 32 cm (box)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's gold rimmed cartonnage box with a hand-colored lithographed sheet attached to the lid, showing two versions of scenery, signed G.N. With the title in German, English, and French stamped in black ink.
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