Drawings of bizarre and violent kids' games from 1657

Drawings of bizarre and violent kids' games from 1657

"The Games and Pleasures of Childhood" is a set of 50 engravings published in 1657 by French engraver Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636-1697). Some of the games depicted in the series are familiar. One drawing shows kids playing paddle ball; another shows four kids blowing soap bubbles (while two kids in the scene punch and kick each other to settle a score); another shows them playing blind man's bluff. — Read the rest The post Drawings of bizarr…