print;
playing-card
- Museum number
- SL,1009.1-2
- Description
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Two playing-cards, the king and 7 of diamonds with blank backs on which have been written verses by Philippe Quinault from Lully's opera "Proserpine",1680.
Hand-coloured woodcut and stencil
- Production date
- 1670-1690
- Dimensions
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Height: 85 millimetres
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Width: 56 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A note in an old hand on the envelope containing these cards records that they came from Sloane Manuscript 1009 - "Gideon Bonivert, between 1670 and 1690" and that the rest of the volume consists of love poems (autograph), receipts, etc. etc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the British Library at an unknown date
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,1009.1-2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: F.3