The New Game of Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished Object: Board...

The New Game of Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished

• Object:
  
  
  

  Board game

  
  
  
  


• Place of origin:
  
  
  

  London, England (published)

  
  
  
  


• Date:
  
  
  

  1818 (published)

  
  
  
  


• Artist/Maker:
  
  
  

  Darton, William (publisher)

  
  
  
  


• Materials and Techniques:
  
  
  

  Hand coloured paper on linen

  
  

  Moral games were particularly popular in the 19th century. The 33 playing spaces on this example are named for virtues such as Faith, Hope and Charity, and vices such as Folly, Malice and Envy. The game would have been played with a teetotum, an early form of dice in the shape of a spinner. The players begin on the first space, the House of Correction, and the winner is the first to land on the last space: Virtue.

  
  

  The Victoria and Albert Museum