Home Collections

Play

Range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment

Wikidata
Source:
Wikidata

Images from the collections

Images referencing Play

30 images from works
  • Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A white telephone on a pink background advertising AIDS counselling services offered by health authorities and voluntary organizations; with the message ''You do not get AIDS from playing". Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen, ca. 1995.
  • A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • Two young children hide as two adults come into the room where the children have been playing with their precious antiques. Engraving by T.A. Dean after J. Jenkins.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.
  • Sunlight Soap makes washing play / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • A young child sitting at a table using dominoes as building blocks. Engraving by A.& E. Varin after A. Anker.
  • A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F. Hardy.
View all

Works from the collections

37 works

View all
Child
Games, Recreational
History, 19th Century
House furnishings
Mothers
Toys
Family
Dolls
Hindu mythology
Children's clothing