IDENTIFIERS
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id:	224921
accession number:	P.14632-R(13)

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 5 September 2018
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A hand-coloured woodcut of a male figure wearing a plumed cap who holds a cup aloft in his right hand. The card is untitled. From an incomplete pack, 38 of 40 cards in the Neopolitan pattern, for the game of Ombre. The missing cards are the King of Clubs and the Ace of Clubs. Ombre, a card game which originated in Spain in the 16th century, uses a stripped deck where all the 8, 9 and 10 ranks are missing. These cards were made in Salerno in southern Italy in 1881 (See Ace of Coins), where cards with Spanish suits were commonly used. There are only three face cards in the Spanish deck, which are King, Knight and Jack. The backs of the cards feature a design of blue chevrons around a central oval-shaped medallion containing a double-ended image of a group of buildings, presumably in Salerno, but not identified. The backs of the cards are folded over the edges of the fronts forming a border that is typical of Italian-made cards.
A very similar pack, close in date but made in Naples, is in the collection of the British Museum. See: 1875,1211.172-211. The British Museum pack features the same design on the backs of the cards but with a double-ended image of the Royal Palace in Naples.
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: Given by J.E. Foster, M.A., 1872-1912

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/224921





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:	1881 - 1881
creation date earliest:	1881
creation date latest:	1881
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Clarizia, Dionisio