Game Collection

King of Spades from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

King of Hearts from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

Queen of Hearts from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

Oxford and Cambridge Chess Match, 19th century

A cricket match in progress at Lords cricket ground, London, 1912. From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912)

Queen of Hearts, 1925. From De La Rue & Cos Pneumatic Playing Cards. [Thomas De La Rue & Co. London, 1925]

Soldiers playing cards in the trenches, First World War, c1916, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Soldiers playing cards in the trenches, First World War, c1916, (c1920). An Interval of Peace: British bomb-gun section enjoying a hand at cards while the sentries keep watch through the periscopes

Jack of Hearts from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

Ace of Hearts from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

Skinning the Lamb, c1910. An American cartoon depicting three African American men playing cards. Two of the men are skinning or fleecing the third. The barman looks on with a knowing smile

King of Diamonds from a deck of Goodall & Son Ltd. playing cards, c1940. [Goodall & Son Ltd. London, c1940]

A Cribbage Party in St. Giless Disturbed By A Press Gang, October 26, 1787

Kitchen Scene, 1620s. Creator: Peter Wtewael
Kitchen Scene, 1620s. meat on a skewer. The grins of housemaid and errand boy indicate their enjoyment of one anothers company

The Card Players, 1890-92. Creator: Paul Cezanne
The Card Players, 1890-92

Game of Chess, 1835
Game of Chess, pub by Thomas McLean, 1835 (hand coloured engraving)

Les Joueurs d echecs (Chess players), 15th century. Creator: Anonymous master
Les Joueurs d echecs (Chess players), 15th century. Found in the collection of Musee national du Moyen Age (Musee de Cluny)

Framlingham Castle, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Framlingham Castle, 1845. Norman castle in Suffolk. This picturesque ruin of a fortress of the Middle Ages, stands on the north side of the town of Framlingham, 18 miles north-east of Ipswich

A memento of James Southertons benefit cricket match, 19th century (1912). James Southerton (1827-1880) was an English cricket international

Encampment on Blackheath, Greenwich, London, 1780. Artist: Paul Sandby
View of an army encampment on Blackheath, Greenwich, London, 1780. Showing a windmill on the right and soldiers playing cards with a farmer in front

The Stafford Children, c1776. (1914). Artist: George Romney
The Stafford Children, c1776. The five youngest children of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721-1803). After an original work by George Romney (1734-1802)

Cats playing with a chessboard. Artist: Goupil and Co
Cats playing with a chessboard

Chess celebrities at the late chess meeting, 1855. Herr Lowenthal, M De Riviere, Mr Wyvill, MP, Herr Falkbeer, Mr Staunton, Lord Lyttelton, Captain Kennedy

The all-India cricket team of 1911 (1912). From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912)

A cricket match on Bansted Downs, Surrey, 19th century (1912). From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912)

Coney Isl., 1/3/15, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Coney Isl., 1915.

A Pictorial: the Second Syllable, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A Pictorial: the Second Syllable, 1864. Christmas entertainment. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

A Pictorial: the First Syllable, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A Pictorial: the First Syllable, 1864. Christmas entertainment. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

A Pictorial: the Last Syllables, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A Pictorial: the Last Syllables, 1864. Christmas entertainment. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

"Dead Swan and Peacock", by the late W. Duffield, 1864. Creator: W Thomas
"Dead Swan and Peacock", by the late W. Duffield, 1864. Engraving of a painting. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Overcheck, 1937. Creator: Klee, Paul (1879-1940)
Overcheck, 1937. Found in the Collection of the Kunsthaus Zurich.

The chess players, 1863-1867. Creator: Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879)
The chess players, 1863-1867. Found in the Collection of the Petit Palais, Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

"Children Playing at Horses", by C. R. Leslie, in the late International Exhibition, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
"Children Playing at Horses", by C. R. Leslie, in the late International Exhibition, 1862. 'We cannot seize and confine in words the delicate aroma of natural truth

A Pictorial: the Word, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A Pictorial: the Word, 1864. Christmas entertainment. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Högtorp…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Hogtorp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The future King Edward VII in Scandinavia

"Startled," by Harrison Weir, in the Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving. 'Mr

Harvest-home at the Philanthropic Society's farm-school, Redhill, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Harvest-home at the Philanthropic Society's farm-school, Redhill, 1864. 'This institution...is designed for the instruction and moral reformation chiefly of boys under fifteen years of age

Chess game, 1909. Creator: Unknown
Chess game, 1909. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Moscow: Jewish orphanage named after the Comintern. Games in the garden, 1920-1929. Creator: Unknown
Moscow: Jewish orphanage named after the Comintern. Games in the garden, 1920-1929. In the early part of the Stalin era, the Kremlin established a new administrative territory in the Soviet Far

Baseball game, 1915. Creator: Unknown
Baseball game, 1915.

Still Life with a Rifle, Hare and Bird ("Fire"), 1720. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Still Life with a Rifle, Hare and Bird ("Fire"), 1720

Still Life with Dead Game and a Silver Tureen on a Turkish Carpet, 1738. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Still Life with Dead Game and a Silver Tureen on a Turkish Carpet, 1738

Still Life of Abundant Game. Creator: Jan Fyt
Still Life of Abundant Game, Unknown date

Still Life with Dead Game, a Monkey and a Dog. Creator: Frans Snyders
Still Life with Dead Game, a Monkey and a Dog

Interior with Backgammon Players at Table, 1622-1630. Creators: Bartholomeus van Bassen, Esaias van de Velde
Sumptuous Renaissance Interior with Tric-Trac Players; Interior with Backgammon Players at Table, 1622-1630

Card and Backgammon Players. Fight over Cards, 1616-1626. Creators: Theodoor Rombouts, Michelangelo Caravaggio
Card and Backgammon Players. Fight over Cards, 1616-1626

Hunting scene, 1683. Creator: Hendrik Verschuring
Hunting scene, 1683

Tokugawa Yoshimune Playing Kemari, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tokugawa Yoshimune Playing Kemari, 1875. Series: Brief Account of the Rulers of the Tokugawa Clan. Asukai Masanori Teaching Tokugawa Yoshimune to Play Kemari

Osaka Castle, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Osaka Castle, 1865

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