print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.661
- Description
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Complete 'Mythology' pack of 52 playing-cards: Mortier's "Jeu des Metamorphoses d'Ovide"
Hand-coloured etching (only suit-marks coloured)
Mounted in an album
With original wrapper (also mounted)
Late 17th Century
- Production date
- 17thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres (album)
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Height: 85 millimetres
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Width: 215 millimetres (album)
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Width: 55 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- These cards are in imitation of those issued by Desmarest in Paris (see French PACKS, Nos. 106-122). Each has a representation of a story in the Metamorphoses, with explanation in French below, the value being indicated by a suit-mark enclosing a numeral in the upper part of the composition. With original wrapper which has a representation of an assemblage of the gods, with the full title above and below, and "Jeu d'Ovide" at each end.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.661