An Elizabethan pack of playing-cards

Author

Hind, A. M.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Playing-card. 1991, Num. 4, Vol. 19, p. 131-134, 2 ill.

Abstract (en)

Reprint of a 1938 article (British Museum Quarterly, 13, no 1) reporting on the recent acquisition of a pack of English playing cards with maps of the counties of England and Wales. The 60 illuminated copperplate engravings are signed and dated "W.B. inven, 1590".

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Prints and illustration -- United Kingdom
• Playing cards
• Great Britain
• 1500-1600
• British Museum||London (GBR)
• Prints
• Engraving
• Manuscript illumination
• Maps

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Estampe et illustration -- Royaume-Uni
• Carte à jouer
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1500-1600
• British Museum||London (GBR)
• Estampe
• Burin
• Enluminure
• Carte

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00429026

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