print; playing-card

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Object Type: print; playing-card
Museum number: 1871,0513.563-574
Title: Series: Jeu des fables
Description: Sheet of twelve playing cards; three rows of four images with space below each for text, each showing a mythological scene; from a pack of 52 playing cards with mythological subject matter; proof before letters. 1644 Etching
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Production date: 1644
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Dimensions: Height: 86 millimetres (approx size each card); Height: 46 millimetres (approx size each image); Height: 268 millimetres (plate); Width: 55 millimetres (approx size each card); Width: 55 millimetres (approx size each image); Width: 269 millimetres (plate)
Curator's comments: See curator's comment to 1871,0513.534-535. For two sets of individual cards in later states and with lettering, see 1849,0421.226 and 1856,0510.801.
Bibliographic references: De Vesme/Massar 1971 / Stefano della Bella (495.I); Willshire 1876 / A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards in the British Museum (French 74) (A.I.i)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical mythological figure/creature; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Boreas; Representation of: Oreithyia; Representation of: Salmacis; Representation of: Hermaphroditos; Representation of: Pygmalion; Representation of: Deucalion; Representation of: Pyrrha; Representation of: Zeus/Jupiter; Representation of: Semele; Representation of: Ariadne; Representation of: Theseus; Representation of: Callisto; Representation of: Kephalos; Representation of: Prokris; Representation of: Danae; Representation of: Orpheus; Representation of: Eurydice; Representation of: Perseus; Representation of: Medusa; Representation of: Hermes/Mercury; Representation of: Argus; Associated with: Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin; Associated with: Cardinal Jules Mazarin; Associated with: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre
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Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1871,0513.563-574

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