M25045: Sheet of Playing Cards (with extra jacks)
PrintsAn off-white sheet printed with a grid of wood engravings of patterned, stylized playing card images of kings, queens and jacks. There are four rows of five evenly spaced, identically sized images within upright rectangles. The two upper rows show two alternating kings and queens with a jack in the center, each character variously facing front or in profile. The third row down shows five forward facing jacks, and the last row show five jacks in profile.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M25045
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Sheet of Playing Cards (with extra jacks)
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: kings, queens, jacks
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1725
- Culture
- British?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/165555
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- sheet: 41 x 33 cm (16 1/8 x 13 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Harvard Map Collection
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- M25045
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/16/2020 - 07/30/2021
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