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print
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playing-card
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
Producer name
Print made by:
Stefano della Bella
School/style
Italian
Production date
1644
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
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
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
William Radeke
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Willem Isaack Hooft
Acquisition date
1871
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1871,0513.563-574