Accession number
PML 86081
Published
[Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, ca. 1880]
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund; 1994.
Notes
Imprint from Buijnsters.
Wood engraving, with color blockprinting in blue, red, green, and yellow.
Board for the Game of Goose, a game of chance, played with two dice and tokens. Sixty-three numbered, columned spaces are arranged in two concentric, counter-clockwise tracks that lead into an rectangular space that holds the rules of the game. In the two lower corners are depicted a trumpeter and a woman with a goose. Some spaces have images, thirteen of which are favorable spaces depicting geese, while others are hazard spaces depicting a bridge, a tavern, a well, a maze, a prison, and Death. At the end, four figures seated at a table.
Wood engraving, with color blockprinting in blue, red, green, and yellow.
Board for the Game of Goose, a game of chance, played with two dice and tokens. Sixty-three numbered, columned spaces are arranged in two concentric, counter-clockwise tracks that lead into an rectangular space that holds the rules of the game. In the two lower corners are depicted a trumpeter and a woman with a goose. Some spaces have images, thirteen of which are favorable spaces depicting geese, while others are hazard spaces depicting a bridge, a tavern, a well, a maze, a prison, and Death. At the end, four figures seated at a table.
Description
1 sheet : col. ill. ; 39.5 x 32.5 cm
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