Playing Card
1748 (printed)
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Playing card from a pack of 52, illusrtated with a biblical scene, the suit sign coloured by hand, being Discs (yellow), Diamonds (pink), Hearts (lavender) and Jars (buff); each card illustrates an episode from the Old Testament and bears within the suit sign an emblem whose significance is explained in the text below the illustration. The cards are not numbered but each is lettered with capital or lower-case letters. In a contemporary slip-case of stamped leather.
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Materials and techniques | Etching, coloured by hand |
Brief description | Antonio Visentini after designs by Francesco Zuccarelli. Playing card from a pack of 52 with biblical scenes, 1748. |
Physical description | Playing card from a pack of 52, illusrtated with a biblical scene, the suit sign coloured by hand, being Discs (yellow), Diamonds (pink), Hearts (lavender) and Jars (buff); each card illustrates an episode from the Old Testament and bears within the suit sign an emblem whose significance is explained in the text below the illustration. The cards are not numbered but each is lettered with capital or lower-case letters. In a contemporary slip-case of stamped leather. |
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Marks and inscriptions | (Lettered with descriptive text in Italian and with 2 lines of Italian and 2 lines of Latin verse) |
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Accession number | E.449:49-1953 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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