print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.5-80
- Description
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Tarot pack: incomplete pack with 76 of 78 playing-cards with suit-marks of swords, clubs, coins and cups. The missing cards are the ace of coins and the 4 of clubs. The 4 of cups bears the initials "J G" for the Flemish artist Jean Gisaine. Although Willshire recognises this pack's similarity to the Flemish tarot pack, 1982,u.4606, he mistakenly labeled this pack as French.
Hand-coloured woodcut
Backs printed with a small diagonal pattern of black stars
18th Century
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 119 millimetres
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Width: 70 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The true tarot designs are a similar modification of the old French pattern of Besançon, Marseilles, and Geneva, as may be seen in the Flemish pack 1982,u.4606 bearing the address of "F. J. Vandenbore Cartier a Bruxelles". As in the Flemish pack, here No. II of the atouts represents 'L'Espagnol, Capitano Eracasse', instead of the typical 'La Papesse'. No. 5 has on it 'Bacus' instead of 'Le Pape', and 'Le Pendu' (No. XII) must be reversed in order that the figure hangs head down in the usual way. No. XVI is here 'La Foudre', a tree struck by lightning, instead of a tower or house, 'La Maison Dieu', and 'Le Fol' is numbered XXII.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from a Mrs Hooker (not further identified)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.5-80