print; playing-card

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Object Type: print; playing-card
Museum number: 1896,0501.681.1-28
Title: Series: Jeu de la Géographie
Description: Incomplete pack with 28 of 52 playing-cards Etching Unmounted 1644
Producer name: Print made by: Stefano della Bella; Published by: Florent Le Comte; Published by: Henri Le Gras; After: Jean Desmarests
School/style: Italian; French
Production date: 1644
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 88 millimetres (approx. size of each card); Width: 55 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Imperfect set of the same cards as 1896,0501.680, unmounted and in the third state, with letters and numbers added in lower left corners. For full details see curator's comment to 1871,0513.587 and individual entries for De Vesme/Massar numbers 543 to 594. The cards missing from this pack are the entire suit of hearts, the 2 and 6-king of diamonds, and the 2-3 of clubs.
Bibliographic references: De Vesme/Massar 1971 / Stefano della Bella (542.V-594.V); Schreiber / Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber (French 116)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: 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: 1896,0501.681.1-28

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