print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- 1982,U.4637.1-32
- Description
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A sequence of 32 playing-cards bound (at the British Museum) as a small book, having on them emblematic designs of various character, and below moral apophthegms to which the designs have reference. Each piece has a number at the upper left-hand corner answering to certain explanatory and descriptive tables given in a book of directions which accompanies the cards. The title page of this book of 31 pages bears the following lettered inscription: "Les Amusements des Allemands, or The Diversions of the Court of Vienna, in which the Mystery of Fortune-Telling from the Grounds of the Coffee-Cup is unravelled, and Three pleasant Games, viz.: 1. Fortune-telling from the Grounds of the Coffee-Cup. 2. Fortune-telling by laying out the cards. 3. The new Imperial Game of numbers are invented", and "London: Printed for Champante and Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, and may be had at every Booksellers and Toy Shop in the Kingdom, 1796."
Engraving and letterpress
Backs plain (according to Willshire)
1796
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 98 millimetres
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Width: 72 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1796-1875 (Old BM Library stamp)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,U.4637.1-32
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 7913.aaa (old British Museum Library press mark)
