Allegorical print showing a game of four-handed chess, The Royal Game or Le jeu du Roi. A king with orb and sceptre watches courtiers representing power, law, prudence, magnanimity move chess pieces with batons. Frontispiece by Jonas Arnold to New-erfundenes Grosses Konigs-Spiel by Christoph Weickhmann, Ulm, 1664. Lithograph from Henry Rene dAllemagnes Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.
Allegorical print showing a game of four-handed chess, The Royal Game or Le jeu du Roi. A king with orb and sceptre watches courtiers representing power, law, prudence, magnanimity move chess pieces with batons. Frontispiece by Jonas Arnold to New-erfundenes Grosses Konigs-Spiel by Christoph Weickhmann, Ulm, 1664. Lithograph from Henry Rene dAllemagnes Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.