Life of David

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	England (made)

Part of a set of thirty picture-making cubes, which can be arranged to form twelve scenes from 'The Life of David', with colour wood-engraving printed sheets (4, from a set of 6, each with two key pictures). All within a wooden box, with a sliding lid on which is pasted one of the 4 sheets.

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Categories	Children & Childhood Entertainment & Leisure Christianity Games Toys & Games
Object type	Puzzle block set
Title	Life of David
Materials and techniques	wooden box, wooden cubes covered with chromolithographed paper Wood Paper Lithographic Ink Woodworking Chromolithography
Brief description	Part of a set of thirty picture-making cubes which can be arranged to form twelve scenes from 'The Life of David', with colour wood-engraving printed sheets. All within a wooden box with a sliding lid. English, mid-19th century.
Physical description	Part of a set of thirty picture-making cubes, which can be arranged to form twelve scenes from 'The Life of David', with colour wood-engraving printed sheets (4, from a set of 6, each with two key pictures). All within a wooden box, with a sliding lid on which is pasted one of the 4 sheets.
Dimensions	Size of box height: 30cm Width: 25cm Measurements taken from: Victoria & Albert Museum : Department of Prints & Drawings and Department of Paintings : Accessions 1967. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London. 1968.
Credit line	Given by Miss Pamela Hawkes
Production	Note: In his Victorian book design and colour printing, 1963, Ruari MacLean states that two plates in Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Book, n.d., printed by Kronheim are signed G. Jungmann del. sc., 'The Story of King David', nos. 3 and 4.
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum : Department of Prints & Drawings and Department of Paintings : Accessions 1967. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London. 1968.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.370C-1967

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O693547/life-of-david-puzzle-block-set-unknown/

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