Home Collections

Games, Recreational

Structured form of play

Wikidata
Source:
Wikidata

Images from the collections

Images about Games, Recreational

40 images from works
  • An employee is caught neglecting his work as he drinks and plays skittles. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.
  • Bagnigge Wells: the gardens, with people taking tea, playing bowls, etc. Coloured process print after a drawing made in 1830.
  • London Ophthalmic Infirmary, and the Catholic church, Finsbury. Coloured engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Charterhouse Hospital School, London: boys playing cricket. Engraving by J. Rogers after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Young children playing a game of hide-and-seek. Etching by Adolphe Lalauze after Honoré Fragonard.
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.
  • Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A pair of Pensioners, seated at a table, playing draughts, with others looking on, inside the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, with a vignette of tricorn hat, wooden leg, clay pipe, drinking glass and medals at lower left. Etching by G. Fox, 1887.
View all

Works from the collections

Works using this type/technique
Works using this type/technique
Works about this type/technique
Works about this type/technique
Child
Hospitals
Schools
Costume
Church buildings
Soldiers
History, 18th Century
Play
History, 19th Century
Card games