A hand-drawn table game, Continental, circa 1830s, pen & ink, pencil, and watercolour on paper, trimmed and sometime laid down on paper, sixty-two numbered compartments, comprising a large circular illustration of knights jousting within a frame of numerals and skulls, flanked by pikemen, above two rectangles, one showing a gentleman being knighted, and the other with soldiers fighting, surrounded by fifty-nine squares, most with an illustration (castles, knights, ships, bridges, etc.), some pencil annotations apparently in German, several folds, generally dust-soiled, and some closed tears, 43 x 31cm (17 x 12.25ins), early manuscript signature on mount A carefully-drawn game, probably executed by an older child. (1)
A hand-drawn table game, Continental, circa 1830s, pen & ink, pencil, and watercolour on paper, trimmed and sometime laid down on paper, sixty-two numbered compartments, comprising a large circular illustration of knights jousting within a frame of numerals and skulls, flanked by pikemen, above two rectangles, one showing a gentleman being knighted, and the other with soldiers fighting, surrounded by fifty-nine squares, most with an illustration (castles, knights, ships, bridges, etc.), some pencil annotations apparently in German, several folds, generally dust-soiled, and some closed tears, 43 x 31cm (17 x 12.25ins), early manuscript signature on mount A carefully-drawn game, probably executed by an older child. (1)
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