print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1896,0501.925.1-52
- Description
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Complete pack of 52 playing cards depicting various mathematical and scientific instruments; the cards are illustrated with instruments, or trades and sciences relevant to instruments, with description below; in the top right hand corner a miniature playing card indicates suit and value; plain backs. 1700
The cards are titled as follows:
Hearts:
Ace: 'Mathematick'
2: 'Croß-staffe'
3: 'Plows & Bows'
4: 'Sea Quadrant'
5: 'Coue'
6: 'Miner'
7: 'Bow'
8: 'Mill-wright'
9: 'Scales'
10: 'Compaßes'
Knave: 'Surveying Wheel & Chains'
Queen: 'Shipp'
King: 'Fortification & Gunnery'
Spades:
Ace: 'Bookes & Instrum.ts for Navigation'
2: 'Charts'
3: 'Tryangular Quadrant'
4: 'Quadrant'
5: 'Platonicke Bodys'
6: 'Carpentor'
7: 'Magnet or Loadstone'
8: 'Gardner'
9: 'Pocket Cases'
10: 'Tellescope'
Knave: 'Leavell'
Queen: 'Astronomical Quadrant'
King: 'Spheres'
Diamonds:
Ace: 'Mathematical Instruments'
2: 'Imperial and Plain Table'
3: 'Gauger'
4: 'Almanacke'
5: 'Architect'
6: 'Circumferentor'
7: 'Shipwright'
8: 'the Compaß'
9: 'Dyals'
10: 'Bricklayer'
Knave: 'Parallellogram'
Queen: 'Projections of the Sphere'
King: 'Globes'
Clubs:
Ace: 'Dyaling Globe'
2: 'Theodolet & Semi Circle'
3: 'Protractor'
4: 'Sinical Quadrant'
5: 'Thermometre'
6: 'Barometre'
7: 'Noctournal'
8: 'Stone carver'
9: 'Glasier'
10: 'Sector & Scales'
Knave: 'Painter Pavior Turner Smith'
Queen: 'Drawing Table'
King: 'Building'
Engraving
- Production date
- 1700
- Dimensions
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Height: 91 millimetres
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Width: 57 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 1847,0306.25-55 for another set.
An instrument made by Tuttell is in the BM (P&E 1888,1201.302). The caption for the King of Clubs (Fortification & Gunnery) begins "Sir Jonas Moors Sector..." One of these is in the BM (P&E 1998, 10-2.1).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2009 Jun-Sep, Oxford, Mus Hist/Sci, Compass/Rule (nos 1,31,36,51,52)
2010 Feb-May, New aven, YCBA, Compass/Rule (nos,1,31,36,51,56)
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0501.925.1-52
