A playing card with a hand printed motif of a hand holding a sword with a crown
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

On off-white card stock, yellowed and spotted with age, a fine lined engraving depicts a hand, emerging from a bright green sleeve at lower left. The hand grips the handle of a sword at lower center, its blade pointed straight up. The blade passes through a gold crown that hovers at center, and the ends of a red ribbon fly out from behind a cross at the crown’s center. The blade is gray while the hilt is gold, the handle red, and the ball-ended pommel is also gold. Five concentric dotted lines form a border around the image.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M2009
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Playing Card: One of Swords
Other Titles
Former Title: Card XXII
Series/Book Title: Tarots Playing Cards for Florentine Game of Minchiate, Complete Set of 97 Cards
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/251448

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving with stenciled opaque watercolor on card
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 9.6 × 5.6 cm (3 3/4 × 2 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward W. Forbes, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1921

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
see W. G. Benham, pp. 5-7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1921
Object Number
M2009
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/16/2020 - 07/30/2021

Verification Level

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