print;
playing-card;
booklet
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.655
- Title
- Series: Jeu des Reynes Renommées
- Description
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Complete pack of 52 playing-cards, plus frontispiece and booklet of explanatory text
Etching
Backs plain
- Production date
- 1680-1711 (published)
- Dimensions
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Height: 86 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
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Width: 54 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This unattributed copy of the Jeu des Reynes Renommées was published in a first edition around 1692 by the Amsterdam publisher and map-seller Pierre Mortier. The deck wrapper adorned with a frontispiece after Della Bella gives some indication of how the game might originally have been sold. The accompanying booklet is a new addition by Mortier, which serves the purpose of connecting the game to the cartographical material on sale in Mortier's shop. It instructs the players to arrange themselves around a table covered with a map and, during play, to show on the map all the places associated with the queens.
(Naomi Lebens)
Copies after one of the four sets of educational playing-cards designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin for the young Louis XIV. Each card depicts a famous queen, with descriptive text, title, number and suit; plus frontispiece and booklet of explanatory text containing descriptions and instructions in French. This pack is copied from 1896,0501.654. The inscriptions are all placed on suspended drapery. The title, which has been clipped, is mounted on the wrapper. A tract giving accounts of the personages accompanies the pack. For full details of the pack see curator's comment to 1871,0513.481 and individual entries for De Vesme/Massar numbers 595 to 647.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 Sept 29-Nov 23 BM G90a Prints in Play
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.655
