print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1982,U.4602.1-55
- Description
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Tarot pack: complete pack of 55 mounted playing-cards for cartomancy (Etteilla), pasted (at the British Museum) into a book with each page containing one card. The pack consists of 52 numerals with French suit-marks, and 3 additional cards, a "Consultant", "Consultante" and a "Diable" or zero, the symbol of negation. Included is a book of directions and solutions entitiled "Livre du Grand Oracle avec Le Jeu Explicatif Composé des 55 Cartes" with "Paris Chez Gustave Arnoult 24 Rue des Fossés-Saint-Victor 1858"
Hand-coloured wood-engraving, letterpress
Backs blue (according to Willshire)
1858
- Production date
- 1858
- Dimensions
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Height: 122 millimetres
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Width: 85 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860 (old BM Library stamp)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,U.4602.1-55
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 7913.b.5 (Old British Museum Library press mark)
