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Card game - The Good Child's Cabinet of Natural History
  • The Good Child's Cabinet of Natural History
    Wallis, John
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The Good Child's Cabinet of Natural History

  • Object:

    Card game

  • Place of origin:

    London, England (published)

  • Date:

    04/01/1813 (published)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Wallis, John (publisher)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Hand-coloured etchings on card

  • Museum number:

    E.1807&:1 to 32-1954

  • Gallery location:

    Museum of Childhood, Costume, Play and Learn Gallery, case 6

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This is an instructive card set rather than a game. Children would have been encouraged to learn the text and be able to answer questions, though not as a competitive question and answer game. There are 32 cards in total, each with a picture and description. The texts are sometimes inaccurate and some of the drawings do not represent the animal very well.

Physical description

Design: hand coloured etchings and letterpress
embellished with 32 fine engravings. volume 1 beasts

Place of Origin

London, England (published)

Date

04/01/1813 (published)

Artist/maker

Wallis, John (publisher)

Materials and Techniques

Hand-coloured etchings on card

Dimensions

Height: 10.1 cm, Width: 6.6 cm

Object history note

This is an instructive card set rather than a game. Children would be encouraged to learn the text and be able to answer questions, though not as a question and answer game.
Texts are sometimes inaccurate and the drawings may hardly represent the animal chosen.
See also the Infants's Cabinet of Fishes.

Games & Puzzles, - CGG, 1991

Historical context note

Rewards: n/a
Forfeits: n/a
No. of Players: any
Equipment required: 32 cards including the title card, each with an illustration of an animal and descriptive text
wooden box with sliding lid and an engraved pictorial label lettered A NEW EXHIBITION OF BEASTS.

Descriptive line

Boxed set of cards, The Good Child's Cabinet of Natural History, published in England by John Wallis in 1813

Categories

Games

Collection code

MoC

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