print;
game-board
- Museum number
- 1893,0331.70
- 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, 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"; 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
- 1789 (after?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 490 millimetres (approx)
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Width: 680 millimetres (approx)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In this print, a later impression of 1893,0331.69, all references to the royal family have been erased (the words 'royal' and 'noble', as well as the privilege and the crown above and the lettering above and below compartment number 44). This is presumably so that Crepy could continue publishing the board post-Revolution
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,0331.70
