print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.656.1-53
- Title
- Series: Jeu des Reynes Renommées
- Description
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Incomplete pack with 49 of 52 playing-cards with frontispiece, mounted in a small album
Etching
- 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
- 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. This pack is a duplicate of 1896,0501.655, but with unclipped title. 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. This pack is missing De Vesme/Massar 613, 645 and 646 ("Octavie", "Isabelle de Castille" and "Isabeau de Bavière"), and instead contains duplicates of De Vesme/Massar 601, 630 and 633 ("Mariame", "Cleopatre" and "Roxelane").
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.656.1-53
