print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.683.1-37
- Title
- Series: Jeu de la Géographie
- Description
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Incomplete pack with 37 of 52 playing-cards, with German suit-marks and inscriptions
Hand-coloured etching
Backs printed with a black diagonal pattern
- Production date
- 1644-1700
- Dimensions
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Height: 105 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
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Width: 58 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Set of German copies after Stefano della Bella's 'Jeu de la Géographie' (1896,0501.680), one of the educational games designed by Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin for the young Louis XIV on the orders of Cardinal Mazarin. For full details of the original game see curator's comment to 1871,0513.587 and individual entries for De Vesme/Massar numbers 543 to 594. This pack is missing the 7, 9 and king of hearts; 4, 6 and 7 of bells; 2, 10, lower knave and king of acorns; and 2, 3, 10, upper knave and king of leaves.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.683.1-37
