Playing Collection (page 94)

A native ball game in Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
A native ball game in Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Venetian woodcut, c1500 (1964). An illustration from Luigi Pulcis Driadeo d Amore. A print from A History of Wood Engraving, by Douglas Percy Bliss, Spring Books, London, 1964

Amenities of the Tennis Lawn, 1883 (1891). Artist: George du Maurier
Amenities of the Tennis Lawn, 1883 (1891). A print from Society Pictures, drawn by George du Maurier, selected from Punch, Volume II, London, 1891

Barbarous Technicalities of Lawn Tennis, 1882 (1891). Artist: George du Maurier
Barbarous Technicalities of Lawn Tennis, 1882 (1891). A print from Society Pictures, drawn by George du Maurier, selected from Punch, Volume II, London, 1891

Music at Home, 1885 (1891). Artist: George du Maurier
Music at Home, 1885 (1891). A print from Society Pictures, drawn by George du Maurier, Selected from Punch, Volume II, London, 1891

Battledore and Shuttlecock, 1906. A print from The Girls own Paper, 12 May 1906

Grace Hawthorne, American actress, 1888. Artist: Ernest Barraud
Grace Hawthorne, American actress, 1888. A photograph from The Theatre, A Monthly Review, Volume XI, January to June, 1888, Strand Publishing Company, London, 1888

Chess and Cards, c1850s. Detail from a stereoscopic card

Evenings at Home, 19th century. Detail from a stereoscopic card

A Game of Chess, c1900s-c1910s(?)

Chess, 1850s. Stereoscopic card

A Game of Cards, 19th century. Stereoscopic card

The Card Game, c1850. Stereoscopic card

Card game, 19th century. Stereoscopic card

Polo in Thibet, 19th century(?)

Hockey, 19th century(?). Artist: F Wentworth
Hockey, 19th century(?)

The Game of Shinty, 18th or 19th century

Princess Mary of the United Kingdom, c1910s(?)
Princess Mary (1897-1965) was the third child and eldest daughter of King George V and Mary of Teck

Tourists wathcing a boy playing a ukelele, Havana, Cuba, 1931. The photograph was taken during a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies between January and March 1931

Action from an Arsenal v Chelsea football match, c1936-c1944. Artist: Sport & General
Action from an Arsenal v Chelsea football match, c1936-c1944. Arsenals Eddie Hapgood and Chelseas Peter Buchanan in a strange pose

Stanley Matthews and Eddie Hapgood pause between shots during a round of golf, 1945. England footballers Hapgood (1908-1973) (left) and Matthews (1915-2000) off duty in Germany

Action from an Arsenal v Sheffield United football match, c1927-1937. Artist: London News Agency
Action from an Arsenal v Sheffield United football match, c1927-1937. A split second interception, and Ball (Sheffield United) is beaten to the ball by Arsenals Eddie Hapgood

Introductions before a RAF vs Metropolitan Police football match, Wembley, London, 1942. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Phillip Game (1876-1961) is introduced to the RAF team before the match

Acrobatics in a Arsenal v Chelsea match at Stamford Bridge, London, c1933-c1938. Artist: Sport & General
Acrobatics in a Arsenal v Chelsea match at Stamford Bridge, London, c1933-c1938. Arsenal captain Eddie Hapgood clears the ball watched by Chelseas George Gibson (centre)

En route for Wolverhampton for the England v Wales football match, 1936. Artist: Keystone
En route for Wolverhampton for the England v Wales football match, 1936. Left to right: Secretary of the Football Association Stanley Rous (1895-1986)

English footballer Eddie Hapgood meeting King George VI, c1937-c1944. Edris Albert Eddie Hapgood (1908-1973) captained Arsenal and England in the 1930s

Two scenes from the Pacific Islands, c1780s(?). Artist: Page
Two scenes from the Pacific Islands, c1780s(?). Top: The mode of dancing in the Island of Ulielea. Bottom: Exact representation of a morai, or burial place, in Olaheilee

Cricket, 19th century(?)

A game of football, 19th century(?)

To the Wail of the Pipes, The Highland Soldiers Lament, 1910. Artist: Richard Caton Woodville II
To the Wail of the Pipes, The Highland Soldiers Lament, 1910. The death of King Edward VII. A print from The Illustrated London News, 21st May 1910

The Queue, the Pensioner and the Dollar Princess, 1910. Artist: Fred Leist
The Queue, the Pensioner and the Dollar Princess, 1910. A print from The Graphic Supplement, 21st May 1910

A child with her grandfather, England, c1922. Artist: AW Cutler
A child with her grandfather, England, c1922. A print from Peoples of all Nations, Volume III, edited by JA Hammerton, The Fleetway House, London, c1922

Men relaxing, Cairo, Egypt, c1922. Artist: Donald McLeish
Men relaxing, Cairo, Egypt, c1922. Smoking hookahs and playing a board game. A print from Peoples of all Nationa, Volume III, edited by J A Hammerton, The Fleetway House, London, c1922

Raree show at Lin-sin-choo, China, c1843. Artist: G Paterson
Raree show at Lin-sin-choo, China, c1843

Cup and ball fair, during the reign of Louis XIV, France, 17th century (1882-1884). Artist: Smeeton
Cup and ball fair, during the reign of Louis XIV, France, 17th century (1882-1884). After a 17th century engraving. A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume III

Page and troubadour of the 13th century, 1882-1884. Taken from the manuscript of Miracles of Saint Louis. A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume II, F Roy editor

The Adoration of the Infant Jesus, 1930. Reproduced from a watercolour drawing by WG Thomas. A print from A History of Tapestry, by WG Thomson, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930

Sioux ball players, 1841. Artist: Myers and Co
Sioux ball players, 1841. A print from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, by Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway, New York, 1841

Princess Dolgorouki, 1889. A print from Figaro Exposition, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, Limited, 4 Stationers Hall Court, London, 1889

Chess: Death checkmating a king, c1400 (1956). A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union

Portative organ and kettledrums, c1474 (1956). Detail from Assumption of the Virgin by Matteo di Giovanni. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things

Edouard Herriot, French Radical politician, playing the piano, 1925. Herriot (1872-1957) was Prime Minister of France three times (1924-1925, 1926, 1932)

Henri Gouraud, French soldier, playing billiards, 1895. Gouraud (1867-1946) first came to prominence in French Sudan in the 1890s, where he succeeded in capturing Samori

Ice hockey, St Moritz, Switzerland

Maurice Rollinat, French poet, playing the piano, 1902. Rollinat was a musician as well as a poet, and set some of his poems to music, performing them at Le Chat Noir cabaret

Now, Freshie, Ride the Goat and Make it Pretty. Artist: American Stereoscopic Company
Now, Freshie, Ride the Goat and Make it Pretty. Stereoscopic card detail

Don t Tell Anyone. Artist: American Stereoscopic Company
Don t Tell Anyone. Stereoscopic card detail

The Harp Player, 1900
The Harp Player. And he gave me a harp of gold to play when I was sorrowful. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1900

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