{"id":59,"date":"2019-03-19T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:38:10","slug":"a-survey-of-london-by-a-party-of-tarry-at-home-travellers-a-new-game-to-amuse-instruct-a-company-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/a-survey-of-london-by-a-party-of-tarry-at-home-travellers-a-new-game-to-amuse-instruct-a-company-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Survey of London, by a Party of Tarry-at-Home Travellers. A New Game to Amuse &amp; Instruct a Company of Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>1820, William Darton, London, England.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many British games of this period mention the products of empire in everyday settings. <em>A Survey of London,<\/em> which functions as a tour of the city, includes the East India House (#7). This was the home of the British East India Trading Company, which held unofficial rule over India from the mid-18th century until 1857.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift of Ellen Liman \u201857<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/03\/Liman-VictorianGames-142-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1266\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/03\/Liman-VictorianGames-142-2.jpg\" alt=\"1820 circular board game titled &quot;A Survey of London, by a Party of Tarry-at-Home Travellers&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-131\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7912514902197431;width:389px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1345\" data-id=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/03\/Liman-VictorianGames-276.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted cardstock case. Scene of London through a Neoclassical building. Banner hanging down with title.\" class=\"wp-image-141\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1820, William Darton, London, England. Many British games of this period mention the products of empire in everyday settings. A Survey of London, which functions as a tour of the city, includes the East India House (#7). This was the home of the British East India Trading Company, which held unofficial rule over India from <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/a-survey-of-london-by-a-party-of-tarry-at-home-travellers-a-new-game-to-amuse-instruct-a-company-of-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A Survey of London, by a Party of Tarry-at-Home Travellers. A New Game to Amuse &amp; Instruct a Company of Friends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/limangames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}