ID: 700001235 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001235	Record Type: Movable Work

Jeu de la Revolution française tracé sur le plan du jeu d'oye renouvellé des Grecs (etching (print); unknown printmaker; published ca. 1790; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2714-391; 714391; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.31,f.5))

Note: The print appears to have been issued in the months that followed the Festival of the Federation celebrated on July 14, 1790 (cf. de Vinck); The game of goose (jeu de l'oie) represents, in 63 illustrated spaces, the progress of the French Revolution from the storming of the Bastille to the gathering of the deputies of the National Assembly; Traditionally, the geese were considered impossible to restrain, but the board game shows them dressed as bridled magistrates of the parliaments of the Ancien Régime. Verses from the revolutionary song Ça ira are printed at the four corners of the print; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [ca. 1790]

Titles:

Jeu de la Revolution française tracé sur le plan du jeu d'oye renouvellé des Grecs (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Game of the French Revolution modeled after the Greek Game of the Goose (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published ca. 1790

Creator Display:

unknown printmaker [preferred,VP]

unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2714-391; 714391; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.31,f.5)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, hand colored

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	hand coloring [300133555]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, coloring (process))

Dimensions: plate mark 36 x 51.6 cm, on sheet 36.3 x 52.2 cm

General Subject:

games and sports (preferred)

history and legend

Specific Subjects:

	board game (game set) [300217912]
	.....(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by specific context>, recreational artifact groupings, <card| table and board game sets>) (AAT)

	goose (board game) [300379131]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <public and interactive activities>, games, board games (activities)) (AAT)

	Ça ira [901000948]
	.....((Literary works: Musical, Choreographic works, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	French Revolution [901000102]
	.....((French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Jeu de la Revolution française tracé sur le plan du jeu d'oye renouvellé des Grecs

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Jeu de la Revolution française tracé sur le plan du jeu d'oye renouvellé des Grecs	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 714391
Game of the French Revolution modeled after the Greek Game of the Goose	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 2736

....................... Images of the French Revolution / Claudette Hould p. 394-395, no. 146

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)