print; playing-card

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Object Type: print; playing-card
Museum number: 1896,0501.684.1-35
Title: Series: Jeu de la Géographie
Description: Incomplete pack with 35 of 52 playing-cards Etching Backs mottled red
Producer name: After: Stefano della Bella; After: Jean Desmarests
School/style: German; Italian; French
Production date: 1644-1700
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 101 millimetres (approx. size of each card); Width: 60 millimetres (approx. size of each card)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This pack is copied from 1896,0501.680 but with German suit-marks and inscriptions. For full details of the original set see curator's comment to 1871,0513.587 and individual entries for De Vesme/Massar numbers 543 to 594. The subjects of individual cards vary in several instances from the originals. The pack is missing the 3-5 of hearts, 5 of bells, ace, 4, 5, upper knave and king of acorns, and the 2-4 and 9-king of leaves.
Bibliographic references: De Vesme/Massar 1971 / Stefano della Bella (542-594); Schreiber / Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber (French 119)
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: 1896,0501.684.1-35

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