print;
game-board
- Museum number
- 1925,0615.181
- Title
- Object: Jeu Impérial
- Description
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Game board with 67 numbered pictorial compartments, each containing a scene from the Napoleonic wars or Napoleon's life in general, beginning with his schooling at Brienne and ending with his exile and his burial in the Invalides, arranged in a spiral, around a central panel, in which are detailed the rules; medallion portraits of Napoleon, Napoleons II, III and IV in the corners
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1860-1870 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 567 millimetres (image)
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Height: 590 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 767 millimetres
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Width: 820 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- The BM bought 45 lots at the 1925 sale of the Lindsay library collection of French revolutionary and Napoleonic era prints through Agnew's for a total of £92 17s (1925,0615.131 to 466). The collection had been formed by the vendor's father, the 26th Earl. The BM acquired many other prints from the same collection at other times.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0615.181