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print
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tarot card
Object Type
print
tarot card
Museum number
1895,0617.103
Title
Object:
Misero
(The beggar)
Series:
The so-called Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna
Description
whole-length male figure, standing in three-quarter profile to left; naked except for a short cloak; leaning on his staff, two dogs at his feet; after the so-called Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna. Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Hans Ladenspelder
School/style
German
Production date
1530-1561
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
176 millimetres
(Plate-mark)
Height:
191 millimetres
(Sheet size)
Width:
101 millimetres
Width:
113 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See Curatorial Comment for 1895,0617.137.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(65)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(XIII.131)
Hind 1938-48 / Early Italian Engraving, a critical catalogue
(I.234.1a)
(Copy)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
poverty
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Luigi Angiolini
(sale Stuttgart 9/21.v.1895/)
Purchased through:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1895
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1895,0617.103