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Playing Card

ca. 1876 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for the decoration of the back of a playing card: a Japanese woman picking fruit; Line block and colour lithography print.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
line block and colour lithographic print
Brief description
Design for the decoration of the back of a playing card: a Japanese woman picking fruit; An example of the Anglo-Japanese style; Line block and colour lithographic print; By William Stephen Coleman; England; ca. 1876.
Physical description
Design for the decoration of the back of a playing card: a Japanese woman picking fruit; Line block and colour lithography print.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9cm
  • Width: 6cm
Dimensions taken from: Hamilton, Jean. Playing Cards in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Victoria & Albert Museum. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London, 1988.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little
Object history
A fairly early example of the Anglo-Japanese style.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Hamilton, Jean. Playing Cards in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Victoria & Albert Museum. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London, 1988, p.42, ill.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Accession number
E.2463-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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