Jack of Diamonds: P.14629-R(24)

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Jack of Diamonds

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Entities

Playing card

Categories

Print

Description

From an incomplete pack of 42 playing-cards. 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. A double-ended court card with a decorative strip dividing the two ends. The Jack wears a roundlet-style hat coloured in black and yellow and holds a pike in his hand. The French suit mark of diamonds is printed to the left of the King's head. 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.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Spencer George Perceval, 1923

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1923) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

19th Century
Production date: circa AD 1830

Note

Height 86mm x width 52mm

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Hand colouring
Woodcut

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14629-R(24)
Primary reference Number: 224780
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 2 October 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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