1790 / 1800, Germany

1790 / 1800, Germany

Identifier
MISC.124-1989
Acquisition
Given by Miss Yvonne Dawson Jones and Miss M. Lalage Dawson Jones
Carried out by
Simon Schropp & Co (http://data.silknow.org/activity/designer)
Collection
Technique
Depiction
Dimension
51 cm (height)
57.2 cm (width)
Production time
Production place

Description

Rewards: receipt stakes and /or moves forward, according to the rules Forfeits: payment of stakes (counters) and/or moving backwards or staying an extra turn in one spot; in accordance to the rules No. of Players: any Equipment required: teetotum; marker per player; at least 12 counters per player with an agree value per dozen; slip case of marbled paper with engraved label on the front. Rules: no rules provided however the game is so similar to those published by John Wallis that it will be played the same way. On the memorial tablet are the words - ML LEOPOLD/HERvBRAUNS/GEB1752GEST85 This probably means Leopold, son/lord/prince? of Brunswick, born 1752, died 1785 Wallis issued the Game of Human Life in 1790 and one or other of these may be a copy. Rules placement: no rules This game is very similar to the Game of Human Life, an English board game. It has the same number of playing spaces, 84, and the illustrations are reverse images of the English version. The main title and the individual ones are in four languages: French, German, English and Polish. The aim is to reach immortality, and the end space of the game is the Immortal Man. It shows a memorial monument with an urn on the shoulders of women who stand on a column and steps, accompanied by four figures. On the memorial tablet are the words ‘MLEOPOLD/HERvBRAUNS/GEB1752GEST85’, which refer to Leopold of Brunswick, who drowned in 1785 while attempting to save people in a flood. He would have featured here as a model of selflessness, which was considered one of the qualities needed to attain eternal life. Design: silk printed with the game; edged with green silk turned and sewn by hand along the two short sides. No. of squares: 84 Squares illustrated: 84 Square numbering: 1 to 84 Squares titled: all Subject of starting square: The Infant Subject of ending square: memorial monument with an urn on the shoulders of women who stand on a column and steps which are surrounded by four figures. On the column is a tablet showing the portrait bust of a man above the words ML LEOPOLD/HERvBRAUNS/GEB1752GEST85 (probably Leopold, Son/Lord/Prince? of Brunswick, born 1752 died 1785). Printed silk moral race game, La Vie Humaine un Nouveau Jeu, published in germany by Simon Schropp & Co in the 1790s