IDENTIFIERS
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id:	224767
accession number:	P.14629-R(11)

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 5 September 2018
updated:	Monday 2 October 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: From an incomplete pack of 42 playing-cards with French suits. There are 10 missing cards: Ten of Clubs, Four of Clubs, Nine of Spades, Ace of Spades, Queen of Diamonds, Three of Diamonds, Two of Diamonds, Ten of Hearts, Nine of Hearts, Ace of Hearts. Woodcut with hand colouring on pasteboard. Contained inside a pasteboard box covered in a design of bamboo strips and black tape.  The back is printed with a pattern of dots and half circles with dots at the centre in blue ink. A stamp found on the Jack of Hearts is closely comparable to that of the tax stamp of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples and Sicily) circa 1830, suggesting that the cards were probably printed in France for use in Naples/Sicily, as packs were stamped in the country of use, not in the country of production.
title:	playing card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Spencer George Perceval, 1923

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/224767





TECHNIQUES
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hand colouring
TECHNIQUES
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woodcut

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1830
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown