Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.

Reference

22993i

The compleat gamester: or, instructions how to play at all manner of usual and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, chess. Also the arts and misteries of riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting. To which is added, the game of basset, never before Printed in English. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd Masters.

Date

1709

Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

Date

1890

Reference

16201i

Just like a bed of roses : Democs and discussion based learning in the classroom / New Economics Foundation.

Date

[2006]

A house in the country; children playing in the garden and on the pavement. Watercolour by J. Millburn, 1968.

Date

20.5.68 [20 May 1968]

Reference

3006292i

Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist quadrille piquet back-gammon chess billiards and tennis. With the established rules of game. By James Beaufort, Esq. of Cavendish-Square.

Date

1796

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].

Date

1760-1762

A man sitting indoors with tobacco pipe, jar and beer jug, behind a woman watches two card players. Engraving by Merot, junior, after A. van Ostade.

Reference

24705i

A young woman tries to fuel a fire with bellows, while her younger brother foils her attempts by blocking the valve with his finger. Mezzotint by Wm Ward jr. after Robert Farrier.

Date

[between 1820 and 1829?]

Reference

2498577i

An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.

Reference

11742i

St. Mark's Schools, Liverpool, Merseyside. Wood engraving by C.W. Sheeres after B. Sly after T.D. Barry.

Reference

20335i

Social drama / Bert Amies, Bernie Warren, Rob Watling.

Date

1986

Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon, complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting at those games, upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games.

Date

[1765?]

Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.

Date

1729

Reference

25667i

An experiment in recreation with the mentally retarded : a joint project of the Lincoln State School and Colony and the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research / by Bertha Schlotter and Margaret Svendsen.

Date

[1932?]

Games for health & social care : catalogue / Focus Games.

Date

2017

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, children playing with a boat on a pond in the foreground. Engraving by R. Watkins, August 1811, after G. Arnald, June 1811.

Date

1811

Reference

25637i

A group of boys with a flag and weapons take hold of one boy who is attempting to escape. Lithograph by Thomas Fairland after Robert Farrier.

Date

1800-1899

Reference

29114i

Repton Priory, Repton, Derbyshire: children playing outside the priory. Line engraving by J. Basire.

Reference

22421i

The psychology of the organized group game : with special reference to its place in the play system and its educational value / by Mabel Jane Reaney ; preface by Dr. Kimmins.

Date

1916

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.

Date

1887

Reference

20763i

Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon, complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting at those games, upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games.

Date

[1770?]

Children playing tag. Engraving by N. de Larmessin after N. Lancret.

Date

[between 1750 and 1759?]

Reference

3043805i

Cento givochi liberali et d'ingegno / Nouellamente da m. Innocentio Ringhieri ... ritrouati in dieci libri descritti.

Date

1551

Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.

Reference

26899i