print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1845,0825.278
- Description
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Doge; standing and turned slightly to right, he wears a robe and a hat, his left hand is placed on his belt; inscribed at lower left: 'S', at lower centre: 'DOXE VII' and at lower right: '7'; encircled by a frame of diamonds. c.1470-80
Engraving
- Production date
- 1470-1480 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 93 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The print belongs to the second version (called 'S series') of a group of fifty engravings traditionally known as the 'Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna' (for this set see the entry for Hind E.I.1a: P&D 1895-9-15-1). It is one of the ten images of the first group of the set, which is marked with the letter "S" and illustrates the 'Conditions of Man' in order of ascending importance.
The figure is a reverse copy of the 'E series' Doge, only varying in the addition of ermine over the shoulders of the figure (for a comparison see Hind E.I.7a and Mark J. Zucker, 'The Illustrated Bartsch, Commentary', vol. 24, part 3, 2000, p. 16, no. 007a).
Other impressions of the print are in Bassano (Museo Civico); Chatsworth (Collection of the Duke of Devonshire); Dresden (Kupferstichkabinett, Zwinger); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Vienna; Paris; and in the Rothschild collection (Louvre, Paris).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1845
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1845,0825.278
