print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1905,1019.213.1-52
- Description
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Complete pack of 52 educational playing-cards giving instruction in astronomy, with booklet of explanation.The suit-marks are coloured red, green, yellow and blue. The pip cards each have a single figure overlapping the stars in its constellation. The aces all have three signs of the zodiac. The court cards have full length figures of Roman gods.
Etching, hand-coloured suit-marks.
Backs plain.
In original box
Circa 1820
- Production date
- 1820 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 97 millimetres
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Width: 65 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1905,1019.213.1-52
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: E.15
