print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.682.1-27
- Title
- Series: Jeu de la Géographie
- Description
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Incomplete pack with 27 of 52 playing-cards; also missing the title card.
Hand-coloured etching
Backs plain
- Production date
- 1644-1700
- 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 pack is copied from 1896,0501.680. Each card has a female personification of a country or continent, the four suits representing the four known continents. For full details of the pack see curator's comment to 1871,0513.587 and individual entries for De Vesme/Massar numbers 543 to 594. This pack is missing the 5 and knave of hearts, ace, 3,10, queen and king of spades, ace, 4 and 7-king of diamonds, and ace-7, knave and king of clubs.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.682.1-27
