Playing Games
One of the best ways to pass the time is by playing games, by yourself or with friends! Games like chess, checkers, card games and board games are great to play when you're stuck inside. Discover historical games and the people who played them in this gallery.
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33 Ítems
Two children playing with a grandfather to a board game
Three girls on some carpets playing cards.
Jongens spelen het spel notenschieten.
De twee oude mannen spelen het spel gô, de andere zeven staan om hun heen. De negen oude mannen waren vrienden van de dichter Pai Chü-i (772-846), in Japan bekend als Hakurakuten en een ambitieuze man die zoveel vijanden kreeg, dat hij uiteindelijk verban…
Het spel tegen de monniken, ca. 1570. Aan een tafel spelen drie monniken tegen drie burgers (waarschijnlijk geuzen of calvinisten) een spelletje triktrak, kaarten en dobbelen. Als de monniken verliezen proberen de paus en een kardinaal met geweld in te gr…
Japanse kinderen spelen een spel in een deuropening. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum van Dolph Kessler met opnamen die hij maakte tijdens zijn verblijf in Engeland en op een wereldreis die hij als secretaris van Henri Deterding (directeur Koninklijke Olie) on…
Drie mannen in Volendammer dracht spelen kaart in een kaal interieur.
Inside a cafe with men sitting on the boards playing cards, parchise and chess. At the top of the wall is painted an inscription that says:\ ‘Lots the Lovers of the Earth Treba...\’ and two copies of ‘the Spark\’ with the sign\ ‘for subscriptions here\’
Lettering: Playing at draughts. gr. Chs. Beyer.
Lettering: The game of Pope-Joan! as lately played at court. HB. Extensive dialogue within the print.
Playing on a Midway Shooting Gallery game machine. Shooting Gallery Midway shoots real plastic balls using a vacuum system.; A picture from photo collection of photographer Sándor Bauer who was the photo reporter of the Hungarian Film Office (belonged to …
Visit to Girona and regions of the Minister Secretary General of the Movement, José Utrera Molina. The minister and the national delegate of Sports, Joan Guich Bech of Careda, play at ping-pong during the visit at the Home of the Juventud of Figueres. Obs…
Three girls stand in a group playing a game of 'battledore and shuttlecock.' Two wear high black shoes, pokkuri. They are looking up at the falling shuttlecock and one girl is poised ready to hit it. They all wear very elaborate kimono with silver…
Boxed educational board game. The aim is to complete a shopping list of items. The game consists of different shopping lists, printed decimal currency converters, game cards, one pound notes, and six sets of new money. Unused. With instruction leaflet. Fr…
Lettering: Game of chess. Chinese monks (Buddhists) Bears Thomson's negative number: "641"; Two Buddhist monks, playing "chess" [perhaps `Go' or another board game?] in a dark interior, both wearing white robes. Three others at…
Lettering: Eug. Millet. 1873.
Lettering: After the card - an ace British and Boer, Boer wins, but only in a game of beggar my neighbour <G.B.>?
The warrior Guan Yu plays at go (a board game) while the surgeon Hua T'o operates on his arm. Centre leaf of triptych. (Left leaf is missing)
Lettering: L' après-dinée flamande. G. Van Tilborch pinx. Car. Gaucher sculp.
British soldiers playing cards in a ruined town near Rheims, in France, during World War I. The devastation caused by the fighting on the front line, yet also conveys the attitude that the British government were keen to promote at home, that life must go…
This shot shows a group of two British and two American soldiers crouched around a wooden crate on which they are playing a card game. Other troops watch rather self-consciously. In the background are the tents of the camp, which is in woodland. The wo…
Op de achtergrond kijkt een rokende man, vermoedelijk de vader van de kinderen, toe. Blad 29 recto uit een schetsboek met 65 bladen.
Drie jonge vrouwen in een prieel. Twee van hen spelen een spel met stokjes en ringen. De derde zit bij een siervaas en kijkt toe. Prent uit de serie Falbalas & Fanfreluches (1922-1926).
Kinderen in dracht spelen met een karretje aan het water. Twee jongens trekken een meisje voort op een houten karretje, terwijl een ander meisje duwt.
The German-born painter Albrekht Ymmenhusen, known as Albertus Pictor, cuts a distinct figure in Swedish medieval art by a unique combination of both quality and quantity. He is the most active workshop leader in the field of Swedish mural painting of the…
Two girls are playing a counting game with shells on the floor. They are on a veranda or similar and trees and a rosebush are visible behind them. The girl on the left wears a pale peach kimono with geometric patterns and a blue obi. She has a flower deco…
Soldiers are playing a relaxing game of cards. Positioned in a circle round the cards, they are stretched out on the ground. A small pile of money has been placed in the middle. One soldier looks over his shoulder towards the photographer, probably John W…
Three gunners playing a game of cards. They are using a wooden crate as a table, and are sitting outside a dugout or hideout constructed from sandbags. All three are smoking pipes or cigarettes. There is a bottle on the ground and a jug on the table, and …