print;
game-board
- Museum number
- 1893,0331.69
- Title
- Object: Le Nouveau Jeu des Cris de Paris
- Description
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Game board with 44 numbered pictorial compartments arranged in a spiral, each representing one of the cries of Paris, with the cry beneath; the final compartment, crowned and wreathed in laurels representing a man handing out printed sheets and labelled "l'Heureux", and below "Edit du Joieux Avenement"; in the centre, the rules of the game; in the lower left corner, a man standing on a scale, whilst weights are placed on the other side, to right, two dogs, one pissing on a parcel labelled "N O", the other defecating on some prints, the whole labelled "La Balance Royale"; in the lower right corner, a merry-go-round, labelled "la Bague", in the top right corner, a crowd of people watching a play "le Fameux Polichinel", labelled "Les Parades"; in the top left corner, a man standing at a door, holding a sack, whilst another man pours the contents of a jug on his head from the window above, a line of musicians along the bottom, as though sitting in front of a stage, labelled "les Battus paient. l'Amande"
Etching
- Production date
- 1779 (after?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 490 millimetres (approx)
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Width: 680 millimetres (approx)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,0331.69
