IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 186300 accession number: P.13064-R(45) DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 7 March 2012 updated: Monday 2 October 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The card records the shooting for cowardice of two British naval captains, Kirby and Wade, who deserted Vice-Admiral Benbow during the naval battle between the British and French known as The Action of August 1702 in the War of Spanish Succession. Benbow was mortally wounded and the French Vice-Admiral allowed to escape. The naval engagement is recorded on Five of Diamonds. From a complete pack of 52 playing-cards commemorating the victories of the Duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Spades satirise the French and Spanish enemy, the other three suits represent scenes from the campaigns, mostly in the Netherlands, also in Spain and Belgium; the aces, court and some numeral cards are portraits or satirical or allegorical scenes. A museum catalogue card is included with the pack and pasted with a printed cutting from a sale catalogue, which has been crossed out in graphite: 'CARDS, A Pack of 52 Curious old Engraved Cards / representing Humourous and Comical Scenes, Military / Portraits of Blucher, Wellington, etc. National Emblematic Figures etc. engraved by L. OSIANDER, scarce'. A graphite inscription written on the card below: 'Pack of 52 line-engraved cards, of historical scenes & personages relating to the War of the Spanish Succession.'. The verso is blank. The pack of cards and catalogue card are contained inside a folded manilla envelope inscribed in ink in a calligraphic hand: 'Marlborough's Victories / A pack of 52 cards / Reproduced in _Playing Cards [of various ages and countries] / selected from the collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber_, Vol. 1, plates / 35-38 / See also _BM Satires_, vol. II / nos. 1342-4, 1429, 1435, 1452, 1461, 1491, 1492, 1543, 1544, 1557, / 1560-5, 1576, 1585'. title: playing card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/186300 SUBJECTS ------------------- War of Spanish Succession TECHNIQUES ---------- engraving TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1715 - 1715 creation date earliest: 1715 creation date latest: 1715 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown