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Playing Card Sheet

ca.1500 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Uncut sheet on which is printed 42 playing cards, arranged in seven vertical rows of six cards each.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woodcut
Brief description
Uncut sheet of 42 playing cards, woodcut print, Basel, Switzerland, ca.1500.
Physical description
Uncut sheet on which is printed 42 playing cards, arranged in seven vertical rows of six cards each.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 40.6
  • Sheet width: 26cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963
Style
Object history
An impression of this sheet is reproduced as Pl. VII of Die ältesten Spielkarten…des 14 und 15. Jahrhunderts by W. L. Schreiber, Strassburg, 1937.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection
Accession number
E.10-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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