Collection Highlights
Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), Study for Havell pl. no. 26
c. 1825
1863.17.26
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, and black ink with scraping and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Game of the Spider's Web
Title
Game of the Spider's Web
Date
1898
Medium
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/8 x 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. ( 2.9 x 21.6 x 26.4 cm )
Description
"Game of the Spider's Web" board game with four woodden playing pieces, a spinner and the board set into the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; board is a path around a spider's web with a wilderness landscape in the background; box cover chromolithographed with an image of "Little Miss Moffet" with a bowl in her lap and a spider dropping down beside her; box cover inscribed, "Game of/ THE SPIDER'S/ WEB/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS/ NEW YORK".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.411
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "Game of/ THE SPIDER'S/ WEV/ COPYRIGHT 1898 BY/ McLOUGHLIN BROS/ NEW YORK"
Gallery Label
Board games achieved a high level of artistry with simple materials and construction: the beautiful gameboard of Spider's Web actually is a chromolithograph glued to the bottom of a plain cardboard box. Nineteenth-century schools immersed children in the classical literature of Greek mythology. Children would have recognized references to the story of Arachne, a beautiful maiden frightened by the jealous goddess Athena, who turned her into a spider perpetually spinning her web.
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