drawing;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1893,0331.132.1-20
- Title
- Object: Loto
- Description
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A set of 20 cards, each bearing 5 consecutive numbers, in total from 1 to 100. Each card bears a combination of illustrations of the Cries of Paris and proverbs, within a framework of flowers, and the name of the cry or the proverb inscribed beneath.
Bodycolour and pen and ink on vellum, backed with paste-board and green leather (?) with gold tooling
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 158 millimetres (each card)
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Width: 136 millimetres (each card)
- Curator's comments
- Pasted on the first card is a small clipping taken from a seller's catalogue, which states "The Game of Lotto, prettily painted, formerly be-/ longing to the Dauphine of France, son o[f Louis]/ XVI., taken from the Bastille before the exe [rest missing]"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,0331.132.1-20