Marriage fortune telling game , ca. 1840?
- Title(s):
- Marriage fortune telling game : manuscript.
- Additional Title(s):
- Choose a flower, you'll quickly see, what your future spouse shall be
- Published/Created:
- Great Britain, ca. 1840?
- Physical Description:
- 12 cards : illustrations ; each 38 x 75 mm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsGV1199 .M37 1840 FlatYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon FundView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13054206
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- Manuscript marriage fortune telling game, by an unidentified maker, ca. 1840. The title card depicts a blindfolded woman holding a garland, with text: "Choose a flower, you'll quickly see, What your future spouse shall be." Each of the 11 remaining cards depicts a small, finely detailed flower, drawn in watercolor. The verso of each card provides a corresponding fortune, written in black ink. The verso of the harebell, for example, forecasts a spouse who is "Pleasant, lively and unassuming, fond of music and dancing, genteel and elegant in figure." For a rose: "Generous, affection & very amiable, fond of travelling & variety, noted for personal beauty."
All cards bear a small hole in each corner, presumably at one time pierced with thread. - Subject Terms:
- Amusements -- Great Britain.Flowers -- Pictorial works.Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.Great Britain -- Social life and customs.Marriage -- Great Britain.Women in natural history.
- Form/Genre:
- Botanical illustrations.
Games.
Recreations.
Watercolors. - Export:
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