print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.1156
- Description
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Eleven early uncut sheets or portions of sheets containing 71 playing-cards or portions of cards which belong to as many as sixteen different fancy German suits. These include thistles, grapes, bagpipes, fish, crowns, shields, roses, helmets, frogs and strawberries.
Woodcut
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres (individual card)
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Width: 48 millimetres (individual card)
- Curator's comments
- For detailed description, see Lady C. Schreiber's "Playing Cards" volume ii, p. 11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.1156