print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1982,U.4564.1-48
- Description
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Complete pack of 48 mounted playing-cards pasted (at the British Museum) into a book with each page containing four cards.
Hand-coloured woodcut
Backs printed with a design of blue lines crossing each other diagonally (according to Willshire)
1856-1866
- Production date
- 1856-1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 92 millimetres
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Width: 60 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- These cards are nearly identical with 1982,u.4563, but the colouring of the court cards occasionally differs, and the backs differ. The cards are numbered at opposite corners diagonally.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850-1875 (Old BM Library stamp)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,U.4564.1-48
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 7913.d.17 (Old British Museum Library press mark)
