Collection Highlights
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Date:
Object Number:
LIB.QH41.C26.1974
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Game of Pussy and Three Mice
Object Number:
2000.328
Date:
1890
Medium:
Cardboard, wood, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 19 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. ( 2.5 x 50.2 x 25.7 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ PUSSY/ AND THE/ THREE/ MICE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK./ COPYRIGHT 1890"
lithographed: on the board: "GAME/ OF/ PUSSY/ AND THE THREE/ MICE/ McLOUGHLIN, BROS, NEW YORK."
Description:
"Game of Pussy and Three Mice" board game with board in the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard and wood box; box cover chromolithographed with three personified mice, a female in an oversized bonnet and two males, one playing a flute, the other with a monocle on a park bench with a personified female cat in a red dress lurking behind a tree; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF/ PUSSY/ AND THE/ THREE/ MICE/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK./ COPYRIGHT 1890"; board chromolithographed with a path of squares around the outer edge; in the center are two medallion portraits of personified cats a portrait of a mouse in Elizabethan dress and a scene of three mice carrying food; board inscribed, "GAME/ OF/ PUSSY/ AND THE THREE/ MICE/ McLOUGHLIN, BROS, NEW YORK."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
