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Chess

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  • A hand hanging over a chessboard has made its last move: white wins because the white king is protected by a condom; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
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Catalogue

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    Frank van Borselen, husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, countess of Holland. Engraving by J. Folkema, 1753, after T. Jelgersma after a painting attributed to J. Mostaert.

    Mostaert, Jan Jansz., active approximately 1475-1555 or 1556. | Date: [1753?] | Reference: 47334i
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    Men gathered around a table as Philidor plays a game of chess wearing a blindfold. Engraving.

    | Date: 1794 | Reference: 33379i
    • Books

    Naturliches Zauber-Buch oder neu-eröffneter Spielplatz rarer Künste zweyter Band, in welchem nicht alleine eine Fortsetzung aller Taschen-Spieler sondern auch mathematischer, physicalischer, Mahler und Frauenzimmer-Künste ... enthalten / [Simon Witgeest].

    Witgeest, Simon. | Date: 1760-1762
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    A hand hanging over a chessboard has made its last move: white wins because the white king is protected by a condom; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 665346i
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    Collection of tracts on astronomy: with others on urines, pulses, tithes, etc., in Latin (Miscellanea VIII)

    | Date: 1479-1487 | Reference: MS.505
All works (17)

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