Three of Hearts: P.14638-R(6)

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Three of Hearts

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Unknown

Entities

Playing card

Description

A hand-coloured woodcut on pasteboard laid down on a large piece of mount board (height 407mm x 277mm) with six other cards from the same pack. A complete playing card portraying the Three of Hearts (Cœurs). The card is unnumbered. The images of the court cards from the same pack are contained within a narrow border and the style of the designs, especially in the facial features and hair, is very similar to those made by Jehan Faucil in Rouen in France during the 16th century. Faucil was active there c.1540-c.1560. See uncut and uncoloured sheets in the British Museum collection: 1851,0208.13-18. A handwritten inscription in graphite at lower right on the recto of the mount board: 'From the Brent Eleigh Library: found / shut up between the leaves of a book. / 1891'. Another inscription in graphite in a different hand (probably Eric Chamberlain, Assistant Keeper of Prints, 1962-1975) on the verso of the mount board: 'French / ?early 16th century'.