print;
game-board
- Museum number
- 1893,0331.106
- Title
- Object: Nouveau Jeu des Cris de Paris
- Description
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Game board with 44 numbered pictorial compartments arranged in a two concentric ovals, each representing one of the cries of Paris, with the cry above; the title and rules detailed in the centre; in the lower left corner, four children standing around a fire, a fifth jumping on it, a cottage to left, with a woman looking out through an open doorway, inscriped "Sauter sur cette paille en feu, mes enfants pour vous c'est un jeu"; in the lower right corner a woman drawing liquid from a horse-drawn still (?), inscribed "L'eau rince mieux le Cerveau, Que le jus de ramponneau"; in the upper right corner, ladies and gentlemen seated at tables outdoors with a band playing in the background under a gazebo, inscribed "Le plaisir est à la guinguette On rit on chante on fait goguette"; in the upper right corner, a lady and a boy by the doorway to a house, with two men giving them two potted bushes in a carrying basket, inscribed "Redoutez jeaune lison, le petit die fripon qui guette La rose et le bouton d'amourette"
Etching
- Production date
- 1810-1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 480 millimetres
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Width: 585 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,0331.106
