print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.495
- Title
- Series: Das Spiel der Hofnung
- Description
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Cards with French suits: a complete pack of 36 playing-cards in a pale blue cardboard case, with printed label on the outside: 'Das Spiel der Hofnung, mit einer neuen illum. Figurenkarte. Neue Auflage. / Le Jeu de l'Esperance, accompagné d'un jeu de cartes a figures.'
Hand-coloured etchings with plain backs
- Production date
- 1800-1850 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 66 millimetres
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Width: 50 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Complete pack in which the lower part of each card is occupied by a fancy vignette, and the upper by a running number and two miniature cards, one showing the value in French suit-marks, the other giving a German equivalent. The set contains a printed leaflet (4pp) describing the game: 'Das Spiel der Hofnung, mit einer neuen Figurenkarte von 36 illumin. Blättern.....Nürnberg, zu finden bei G.P.J.Bieling.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.495