Accession number
PML 88589
Published
Nürnberg : bei Fr. Campe, [1830?].
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Game of chance played with one die.
The game board is a hand-colored, engraved sheet. Thirty-nine numbered panels in a circular, counter-clockwise, spiral track surround number forty, a circular larger panel, depicting Flora in her temple in a garden of flowers and cypresses. The smaller panels are illustrated with alternating images: twenty flowers, twelve insects, one snail, and six watering cans. The flowers have a value of two, the water cans of one step.
Title and rules of the game engraved below.
Vignettes in each of the four corners depict children performing various gardening chores: raking, watering, planting, and arranging the flowers.
"No. 313"--lower left hand corner.
The game board is a hand-colored, engraved sheet. Thirty-nine numbered panels in a circular, counter-clockwise, spiral track surround number forty, a circular larger panel, depicting Flora in her temple in a garden of flowers and cypresses. The smaller panels are illustrated with alternating images: twenty flowers, twelve insects, one snail, and six watering cans. The flowers have a value of two, the water cans of one step.
Title and rules of the game engraved below.
Vignettes in each of the four corners depict children performing various gardening chores: raking, watering, planting, and arranging the flowers.
"No. 313"--lower left hand corner.
Description
1 sheet : col. ill. (engraving) ; 37.6 x 31.3 cm (sheet)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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