print; playing-card

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Object Type: print; playing-card
Museum number: 1896,0501.657.1-7
Title: Series: Jeu des Reynes Renommées
Description: Incomplete pack with 7 of 52 playing-cards Etching Backs plain 1644
Producer name: After: Stefano della Bella; After: Jean Desmarests; Published by: Henri Le Gras
School/style: French; Italian
Production date: 1644-1700
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 94 millimetres (approx. size of each card); Width: 50 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: These cards belong to a pack copied from 1896,0501.654, but with Italian inscriptions. For a full description of the complete set see curator's comment to 1871,0513.481. Each card of that set has been catalogued as an individual entry from De Vesme/Massar 595 to De Vesme/Massar 647. The cards are: Roxanna, Mary Stuart, Queen Elizabeth, Joanna of Naples, Pentheselea, Agrippina and Medea.
Bibliographic references: De Vesme/Massar 1971 / Stefano della Bella (621) (copy); Schreiber / Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber (French 114)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Roxane; Representation of: Mary, Queen of Scots; Representation of: Elizabeth I, Queen of England; Representation of: Joanna I, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence; Representation of: Penthesileia; Representation of: Agrippina the Younger; Representation of: Medea; Associated with: Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin; Associated with: Cardinal Jules Mazarin; Associated with: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1896
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1896,0501.657.1-7

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