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New (The) & Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg

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	primo autore:	Anonimo
	secondo autore:	Wallis
	anno:	1808
	luogo:	Inghilterra-Londra
	periodo:	XIX secolo (1°/4)
	percorso:	Percorso di 33 caselle numerate
	materiale:	carta incollata su tela (engraving on paper with linen backing)
	dimensioni:	570X380
	stampa:	Litografia colorata a mano (hand coloured engraving)
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	numero caselle:	33
	categoria:	Letteratura scritta e disegnata, Belle Arti
	tipo di gioco:	Gioco di percorso
	editore:	Published 30th Nov.er 1808 & Sold Wholesale by John Wallis Sen.r 13 Warwick-Square
	stampatore:	Printed for E. Wallis 42 Skinner-Street Snow-Hill, by J. Pittman Warwick-Square
	proprietario:	Collezione A. Seville
	autore delle foto:	A. Seville
	numero di catalogo:	1298
	descrizione:	Gioco di 33 caselle numerate, spirale, antiorario, centripeto. Il gioco presenta degli episodi e dei personaggi tratti dalla Commedia dell'Arte con lo stesso nome, compresi il Clown e l'Arlecchino e dei luoghi di Londra, in particolare Dunstan's Church e Vauxhall Gardens. Stampato all'apice della carriera del Clown Grimaldi rappresentato alla casella 21, la più grande superficie del tavoliere è occupata dalle regole e ci sono 33 caselle di cui 17 illustrate ognuna con una propria storia ed una ricompensa e/o penalità. La metà delle restanti caselle presenta un uovo d'oro: se si arriva su queste caselle si guadagna un gettone. L'altra metà delle caselle è bianca e comporta il pagamento di un gettone di penalità. Questo gioco, acquaforte colorata a mano, fu stampata da John Wallis il 30 novembre 1808." REGOLE: in basso. CASELLE: mute. REFERENZA 1 "The New&Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg". (V&A Museum). This game, Mother Goose and the Golden Egg, shows episodes and characters from the pantomime of the same name. These include the Clown and Harlequin as well as Mother Goose herself. Places in London also feature, including St Dunstan's Church and Vauxhall Gardens. The game was published at the height of Grimaldi the Clown's career and he appears in playing space number 21. Since much of the playing surface is taken up with the rules, the number of spaces is reduced to 33, of which 17 are illustrated, each having its own story and reward or forfeit. Half the remaining spaces show a golden egg, which if landed on, has a reward of one counter. The other half, which are blank, carry a forfeit of one counter. Physical description Design: etching, coloured by hand; 9 section mounted on linen, with rules and explanations attached to the bottom sections of the playing sheet. N°of squares: 33 Squares illustrated: some Square numbering: all Squares titled: none Subject of starting square: Mother Goose with gander Subject of ending square: Mother Goose with gander Place of Origin: London Date: 30/11/1808 Artist/maker: Wallis, John Materials and Techniques: Hand coloured etching on paper backed with linen Dimensions: Height: 22 in; width: 15 in Object history note: lettered on the rules LONDON PRINTED FOR JOHN WALLIS, 42 SKINNER STREET, SNOW HILL BY F VIGURS, 14 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDENS Based on the Mother Goose, pantomime of Harlequin and Columbine. Historical context note Rewards: receipt of counters, forward movement Forfeits: payment of counters, missed turns and backward movement N°of Players: any Equipment required: teetotum, marked with 6 sides, marker for each player and 24 counters Rules: RULES FOR PLAYING 1. This game is played with a Teetotum marked on 6 sides, and any number of persons may play. 2. Each player must be provided with two dozen counters, (which, before playing they may value as they please), and a coloured one for a mark. At the beginning of the game each player must put 6 into the pool. 3. Spin for first player and whoever spins the highest number must begin the game. 4. Whatever number you spin, place your mark on the number; and if it be a print, refer to the explanation. When it is your turn to spin again, add the two numbers together and move on accordingly. (For example if the first spin is 6 move to No. 6 and if the second spin is 3, add this to the 6 and move to No. 9). 5. Whoever spins a Golden Egg takes a counter from the pool; but if you spin a blank, put one in. 6. If two players arrive at the same number, he that was there first is to move back to the place the last player left, from whom he is to receive 2 for resigning his place. 7. Whoever arrives at the exact number (33) first, wins the game; but if by spinning, he goes beyond that number, he must move twice as many back as he exceeds it. References to the Game: 1. Mother Goose mounted on a gander - Pay 4 to secure her favour. 3. Mother Goose's Retreat. 5. Colin receiving the goose from Mother Goose, who tells him to give the Egg to Avaro, Colinette's father. Take Up 2.7. Colin shows the golden egg to Avaro who wants him to kill the goose, that h may give him all the eggs at once, before he marries Colinette. 9. Colin, having, ungratefully consented to kill the goose, presented him by his best friend, is changed by Mother Goose to Harlequin, and Colinette to Columbine. Pay 3 for Ingratitude. 11. The mock dance between the Clown and Harlequin, dressed as a Barrow woman. Stay 1 turn to see this. 13. The Clown and Pantaloon (formerly Avaro) coming to an Inn, they sit down to supper with the Landlord, when Harlequin enters and causes the chairs and tables to ascend with them, while he and Columbine sit down quietly to their supper, laughing at the situation of the others. Before they can get down you may move on to No. 18. 15. the Clown and Pantaloon entering in pursuit of Harlequin and Columbine, the former is caught in a steel trap while a spring gun goes off and frightens Pantaloon, who leads off the Clown by the leg. Pay 2 to have your wound cured. 17. Harlequin and Columbine, to elude pursuit, place themselves as the two well known figures at St. Dunstan's Church, striking the bell. Take up 4 for this ingenious thought. 19. Vauxhall Gardens, where the Clown gains admission by appearing as a Pandean Minstrel, playing on a fish kettle with a ladle and whisk, with his chin resting on a hair broom. Stay two turns to see the amusements of the place and laugh at this curious figure. 21. The clown steals a letter from the Post Office, containing a bank note, which he pockets; then another in which he finds a small cord and the words 'Sir, I'll trouble you for a line'. For this knavish trick pay 3. 23. The Clown, attempting to drink out of a bottle, finds himself disappointed by the bottom always presenting itself to his lips. You must be disappointed by going back to No. 14. 25. Harlequin pours wine from his sword into the mouth of the Odd Fish. For this act of humanity take up 6. 27. Odd fish, in gratitude to Harlequin, dives into the sea after the golden egg, which he presents to his benefactor. 29. Harlequin restores the golden egg to Mother Goose, who is at length pacified. Having made some amends for your fault, take up two. 31. Harlequin and Columbine united by Mother Goose in a submarine palace, the dwelling of Odd Fish. This being a most beautiful scene, you may stay one turn to admire it. 33. An exact representation of Mother Goose mounted on her favourite gander. By her permission you are allowed to take all the fish remain in the pool and are declared the winner of this game. NB If the players are inclined for another game, the winner of the first to begin it now. Game shows episodes and characters from the pantomime of the same title, including the Clown and Harlequin and places in London including St Dunstan's Church and Vauxhall Gardens. Published at the height of Grimaldi the Clown's career, who is featured in compartment 21, much of the game is taken up with the rules, and the number of compartments is reduced to 33, of which 17 are illustrated, each having its own story and reward or forfeit. Half the remaining compartments show a golden egg, which if landed on, has a reward of one counter; the other half, which are blank, carry a forfeit of one counter. Rules placement: on the playing sheet Descriptive line: Hand coloured game, Mother Goose and the Golden Egg, published in England by John Wallis in 1808. Attribution Note: John Wallis Senr, 13 Warwick Square published and sold wholesale, and sold retail by John Wallis Junr, 188 The Strand. REFERENZA 2 WHITEHOUSE, Francis Reginald Beaman, (pag. 63): MOTHER GOOSE & THE GOLDEN EGG. The New and Favorite game of. Published 30th Nov. 1808 and sold Wholesale by jno. Wallis Senr., 13 Warwick Square, and Retail by John Wallis Junr., 188 Strand, London. An engraving size 15 ½ in X 21 ½ in, hand-coloured, mounted in 9 sections on linen, the rules printed from type affixed below the engraving. Contained in slip-in case with picture label same design as the centre of the game. This label reads “Published 1st Jan. 1809 and sold wholesale by John Wallis, 13 Warwick Square". The characters of Harlequin & Columbine, Clown & Pantaloon are introduced together with golden eggs, alighting on any of which entitles the player to take a counter from the pool, paying to it on the penalty spaces. REFERENZA 3 "Ce sont des règles similaires, mais avec une histoire différente, qui sont à la base de "The New and favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg" (Nouveau jeu favori de ma mère l'oie et de l'oeuf d'or) lequel présente des épisodes et des personnages tirés de la pantomime du meme nom, y compris le clown et l'arlequin, et des lieux de Londres, notamment St Dunstan's Church et Vauxhall Gardens. Edité au sommet de la carrière di clown Grimaldi, représenté sur la case 21, la plus grande surface de son plateau est occupée par les règles, et il n'y a plus que 33 cases, dont 17 illustrées, chacune ayant sa propre histoire, avec une récompense ou une pénalité. La moitié des cases restantes présente un oeuf d'or; si l'on tombe dessus, on gagne un jeton; l'autre moitié, blanche, entraine une gage d'un jeton. Ce jeu, eau-forte colorée à la main, fut édité par John Wallis le 30 novembre 1808." (GOODFELLOW Caroline) REFERENZA 4 "Similar rules but with a different story line form the basis of "The New and Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg" which shows episodes and characters from the pantomime of the same title, including the Clown and Harlequin, and places in London, including St Dunstan's Church and Vauxhall Gardens. Published at the height of the career of Grimaldi the Clown, who is featured in compartment 21, much of the game is taken up with rules, and the number of compartment is reduced to 33 of which 17 are illustrated, each having its own story and reward or forfeit. Half the remaining compartments show a golden egg, wich if landed on, has reward of one counter; the other half, which are blank, carry a forfeit of one counter. This game, a hand-coloured etching, was published by John Wallis on November 30th, 1808." (GOODFELLOW Caroline) REFERENZA 5 Game 35: Mother Goose and the Golden Egg The New and Favourite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg. London: John Wallis & Son, 1808. Copper engraving with original hand color, 57 x 38 cm., dissected and laid onto linen in 3 x 3 panels, folding into slipcase with decorative label. Refs.: Ciompi/Seville 1298; Whitehouse, p. 63. An earlier edition of this engraving was published in 1807 by R. Macdonald of 30 Gt. Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, London. This game is based on the pantomime, Harlequin and Mother Goose: or, The Golden Egg, written by Thomas Dibdin, who, drawing on several fairy-tale sources, re-created Mother Goose as a witch able to fly on a gander. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in 1806, it was an immediate success, starring Joseph Grimaldi as the Clown: He wears a red shirt, frilled and decorated with blue and white facings, cut away at the chest and waist to reveal an ornamented shirt beneath; his blue-and-white striped breeches end above the knee with a red white and blue ribbon, repeated at his wrists; and beneath his blue-crested wig his whitened face is daubed with red triangles on either cheek. This get-up is pictured in space 23: ”The Clown, attempting to drink out of a bottle, finds himself disappointed by the bottom always presenting itself to his lips - You must be disappointed by going back to N°14.” The game itself has nothing of traditional Game of the Goose in the rules. Landing on a golden egg allows the player to draw one counter from the pool but landing on a plain oval requires payment. The illustrated spaces set out the story, e.g.,: Space 17: Harlequin and Columbine to elude pursuit place themselves as the two well-known figures at St. Dunstan’s Church, striking the bell - Take up 4 for this ingenious thought. (The reference is to the ancient clock (1671) of the medieval church of St. Dunstan in the West, in Fleet Street, London, which had figures of giants to strike the hours. ) Space 19: Vauxhall Gardens, where the Clown gains admission as a Pandean Minstrel, playing on a fish-kettle with a ladle and whisk, with his chin resting on a broom - stay 2 turns to see the Amusements of this Place, and laugh at this curious figure. Vauxhall Gardens was one of the major pleasure grounds of London from the middle of the 17th century. Pandean pipes are now called pan pipes. An etching after Edward Francis Burney shows a band playing them at Vauxhall Gardens c. 1800. Space 33: An exact representation of Mother Goose mounted on her favourite Gander - By kind permission of Mother Goose, you are permitted to take all the fish remaining in the pool. (Here the ”fish” are the tokens used as stakes, from the French fiche.) It must have been a great show! Let a most senior member of the British judiciary, Lord Eldon, have the last word on Grimaldi, up to a piece of “business”: ”Never, never did I see a leg of mutton stolen with such superhumanly sublime impudence as by that man.” Eldon was not noted for his sense of fun, but nevertheless saw this masterly thieving twelve times. (Adrian Seville) Exhibitions: - "The Royal Game of the Goose four hundred years of printed Board Games". Exhibition at the Grolier Club, February 23 - May 14, 2016 (Prof. Adrian Seville).
	bibliografia:	1) WHITEHAUSE, F.R.B.: "Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days", London, Peter Garnett, 1951. 2) GOODFELLOW, Caroline: "A Collector's Guide to Games and Puzzles". Secaucus, New Jersey, Chartwell Books-London, Quintet Publishing Limited 1991. 3) GOODFELLOW, Caroline: "The Development of the English Board Game, 1770-1850", in Board Games Studies 1, 1998. 4) GOODFELLOW, Caroline: "Jeux de société. Le guide du collectionneur des jeux de société depuis le XVIIIe siècle jusqu’à nos jours", (Edizione francese) Carrousel MS, 2001. 5) SEVILLE, Adrian: "The Game of Goose: and its influence on cartographical race games" Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society, Winter 2008 N°115 2008. 6) SEVILLE, Adrian: "The geographical Jeux de l'Oie of Europe." In "Belgeo" 2008 3-4 2008. 7) GOODFELLOW, Caroline: "How We Played: Games From Childhood Past", History Press, 2012. 8) QUINN, Brian - CARTWRIGHT, William: "Geographic Board Games". Geospatial Science Research 3. School of Mathematical and Geospatial Science, RMIT University, Australia. December 2014. 9) SEVILLE, Adrian: "The Royal Game of the Goose four hundred years of printed Board Games". Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club, February 23 - May 14, 2016. 10) LIMAN, Ellen: "Georgian and Victorian Board Games: The Liman Collection", Pointed Leaf Press, 2017. 11) NORCIA, Megan A.: "Gaming Empire in Children's British Board Games, 1836-1860". Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 2019. 12) SEVILLE, Adrian: "L'arte dei giochi da tavolo. Oltre un secolo di storia e divertimento dalla fine del Settecento all'inizio del Novecento." Edizioni White Star, 2019. 13) PARLAK, Omer Fatih: "Seafearing through the Perspective of Historic Board Games", in DGSM, Köllen Druck+Verlag, Bonn 2020.
		"The Development of the English Board Game, 1770-1850" (Caroline G. Goodfellow)
		Games of Amusement. "Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days". (Francis Reginald Beaman, Whitehause)

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