EditorialJacob A. Duck, Dutch, 1600-1667, Adam Willaerts, Dutch, 1577-1664, The Game of Skittles (Allegory of Fortune?), c. 1635/1640, Oil on oak panel, Unframed: 22 ? 32 5/8 inches (55.9 ? 82.9 cm).
EditorialPeter Eskilson, Skittles at Faggen's, Scene from Fredman's Epistle 55 by Bellman, K?gelspelet at Faggens, Scene from Fredman's Epistle 55, painting, 1868, oil on canvas, Height, 50 cm (19.6 inches), Width, 65 cm (25.5 inches), Signed, P. Eskilson 1868.
EditorialThe fair on the Thames, February 4, 1814. A contemporary description: 'swings, bookstalls, dancing in a barge, suttling [drinking] booths, playing at skittles, and almost every appendage of a fair on land was now transferred to the Thames... the view ...
EditorialA view of a skittle ground; a plan of a double skittle ground; rules and instructions for playing at skittles. Rules and Instructions for playing at Skittles. By a Society of Gentlemen. London, 1786. Source: C.161.f.3.(40). Language: English.
EditorialJacob's Ladder. Gradual. Bohemia [Prague?]; 1570. (Whole folio) Initial 'O'; Jacob's Ladder, with text and musical notation. Decorated borders include an elephant, coat of arms, and at the foot, a game of skittles. Produced for Sixtus ab Ottersdorff, C...
EditorialThe fair on the Thames, February 4, 1814. A contemporary description: 'swings, bookstalls, dancing in a barge, suttling [drinking] booths, playing at skittles, and almost every appendage of a fair on land was now transferred to the Thames... the view ...
EditorialCoach & Horses, Lambeth, 1892. A poster for a skittles competition to be held at the Coach and Horses Public House, Lambeth, London . [London] : J. A. Lintin, Printer, 52, Tyers Street, Lambeth, 1892. Source: Evan.9204. Language: English.
EditorialMonkeys playing golf, skittles, hoops, croquet, leapfrog, ball games, stiltwalking, archery, spinning tops, popinjay, etc. From a 16th century print. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie...
EditorialSpinning tops, skittles, and other games of the Babki region, Russia, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.
EditorialRussian peasants playing the game of Pristinky, skittles, bowls, cudgels, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.
EditorialMen playing club kayles or skittles by throwing a club at six pins (the origin of nine-pin bowling), 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialMedieval kayles or skittles. Game played with ball, stick, hoop and target (top), men playing kayles or skittles with stick and six pins (middle), and men playing kayles or skittles with stick and eight pins (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph ...
EditorialMen playing club kayles or skittles by throwing a club at eight pins (origin of nine-pin bowling), 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialMonkeys playing golf, skittles, hoops, croquet, leapfrog, ball games, stiltwalking, archery, spinning tops, popinjay, etc. From a 16th century print. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie...
EditorialAdvertisement for toys including diablo, cup and ball, spinning top, skittles, yo-yo, dice, marbles, etc., during the Empire era. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialVillagers playing a game of skittles, while others watch from a swing. From a print by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, 17th century. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialMen playing the game of skittles (quilles) in a pub garden. One man clutches his shin after it has been hit by the bowling ball. From an English caricature of the late 18th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games o...
EditorialMedieval men playing cup and ball, bilboquet, and other games including skittles, badminton and tennis. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialItinerant lathe turner (tourneuse) wearing a dress covered in wooden toys and games. She holds a head for a wig 1, scythe 2, trumpet 3, flutes 4, lace bobbins 5, rolling pin 6, egg 8, goblet 9, coffee mill 10, carved hunting scene 11, spinning wheel 12...