17 results filtered with: Chess
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Frank van Borselen, husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, countess of Holland. Engraving by J. Folkema, 1753, after T. Jelgersma after a painting attributed to J. Mostaert.
Mostaert, Jan Jansz., active approximately 1475-1555 or 1556.Date: [1753?]Reference: 47334i
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Men gathered around a table as Philidor plays a game of chess wearing a blindfold. Engraving.
Date: 1794Reference: 33379i- Books
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].
Witgeest, Simon.Date: 1760-1762
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A hand hanging over a chessboard has made its last move: white wins because the white king is protected by a condom; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 665346i
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Collection of tracts on astronomy: with others on urines, pulses, tithes, etc., in Latin (Miscellanea VIII)
Date: 1479-1487Reference: MS.505
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Officers recuperating on board the "Hercules", Hong Kong. Wood engraving after G.W. Cooke (?), 1858.
Cooke, George Wingrove, 1814-1865.Date: [1858]Reference: 20720i
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A man's hand moving a Chinese character from the word 'AIDS' on a chessboard while leaving the word 'SIDA' (AIDS); a warning about AIDS. Colour lithograph for the Unidade Educaçāo para a Saúde, Macau, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 678404i- Archives and manuscripts
Personal and Family Papers
Date: 1806-1974Reference: PENROSE/1Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Davidson
DavidsonDate: mid-19th centuryReference: MS.2047
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Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26899i- Pictures
An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 24878i
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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 25290i
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Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 553759i- Books
Professor Lim Kok Ann.
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Archives and manuscripts
Dixon, John (1832-1930)
Dixon, John, 1832-1930.Date: 1848-1903Reference: MSS.2135-2195, 5191, 5950 and 6794- Pictures
A man and a woman are playing a game of chess as a young man watches them play. Lithograph after Léon Noel after A. Johannot.
Johannot, Alfred, 1800-1837.Reference: 33375i
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The game of the chesse / by William Caxton.
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322.Date: [1855]