print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1904,0511.28.1-54
- Description
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Complete double-ended tarok pack of 54 playing-cards with French suit-marks. This pack, typical of Austrian tarok packs, has 54 cards. All four suits have a knave, knight, queen and king, while the red suits have the numeral cards 1-4, and the black suits have the numerals 7-10. The atouts each have 2 different scenes with figures, usually a man and woman, in the countryside.
Hand-coloured etching
Backs printed with red, green and black crossing diagonal lines
Early 19th Century
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 118 millimetres
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Width: 65 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There is a duty stamp on the ace of hearts.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0511.28.1-54
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: G.11