IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225200
accession number:	P.89-1944(26)

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Three straight-edged swords. The straight-edged sword is typical of Spanish suits. The card is unnumbered. Hand coloured woodcut on pasteboard. From an incomplete pack, 38 of 40 playing cards of a stripped Spanish deck in the Cadiz pattern, made in Madrid in 1892 by Felix Solesio & Sons. The 8 and 9 cards are missing in all suits, indicating the stripped deck, and additionally the Jack of Clubs and the Five of Clubs are lost. The Spanish term for the suit of Swords is 'Espadas'. The standing kings are typical of Spanish card design. The Kings in Italian suits are seated. Each suit is identified by an outline frame known as 'la pinta', which distinguishes the suit without showing the whole card; the Cups have one interruption, the Swords two (as is seen here), the Clubs three, and the Coins none. 'La pinta' first appeared around the mid-17th century. The backs of the cards are printed in blue ink with a repeated pattern of star shapes composed of eight small dots with an isolated dot separating each star.
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 Revd. F.M. Yglesias, 1944-07

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225200





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:	1892 - 1892
creation date earliest:	1892
creation date latest:	1892
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Felix Solesio & Sons