IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 224853 accession number: P.14630-R(55) DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 15 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: From a full set of 78 tarot cards of the Piedmont type (Tarocco Piemontese), made in Milan by L. Lamperti. A hand-coloured woodcut with the backs of the cards folded over the edges of the fronts to form a border that is typical of Italian cards. Nine decorated coins with two decorative flower motifs at the centre. The Roman Numeral VIIII (instead of IX, seen also in Bastoni suit) printed twice. On the verso is a woodcut printed in red ink and hand-coloured in yellow of a winged female figure holding aloft the Iron Crown of Lombardy, the word, MILANO printed below. The Tarocco pack consists of 78 cards: a trump suit of 22 cards, numbered from 0 to 21, and four 14-card suits of swords (spades), batons (bastoni), cups (coppe), and coins (denari). Each suit has a King (Re), Queen (Regina), Knight (Cavaliere) and Jack or Knave (Fante). There are similar sets in the collection of the British Museum. See: 1904,0511.38.1-78 and 1896,0501.120. 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 creditline: J.E. Foster, M.A., 1872-1912 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/224853 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Lamperti, L.