Accession number
PML 145850.131
Published
[France : s.n., 1682]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Cartographical race board game commemorating the completion of the Canal du Midi.
Mounted as item 131 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Libray's copy trimmed and torn with significant loss to text and image.
Cartographical race board game commemorating the completion of the Canal du Midi.
Mounted as item 131 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Libray's copy trimmed and torn with significant loss to text and image.
Description
1 print : etching ; 401 x 415 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Board game in the "goose game" format, with a series of circles marking the geographical progress of the Canal du Midi from the Garonne Canal to the Étang de Thau.
Classification
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