print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1884,0308.685-720
- Description
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Complete piquet pack of 36 allegorical playing-cards with German suit-marks. The cards are the 6-10, over knave, under knave, queen and king of each suit. Each has beneath it a phrase in both German and Polish pertaining to various human conditions. For example, lettered beneath the king of hearts is "Ehre" (German) and "Honor" (Polish).
Hand-coloured etching
Backs printed with diamond shapes formed of 4 small red dots arranged in parallel lines
19th Century
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 93 millimetres
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Width: 52 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1884
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1884,0308.685-720
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: G.12
