This is a print that shows a set of twenty-four playing cards arranged in three horizontal rows of eight. Each card is decorated with traditional and symbolic imagery, such as crowns, flowers, swords, and people dressed in medieval attire, including some humans and some centaurs. From these images, four symbols seem to repeat several times: swords, staffs, goblets, and round plates. The cards in the bottom row all show different amounts of goblet-like shapes, from two to nine. The designs of the cards have been printed in black ink on off-white paper that is slightly damaged and discolored at the top, with the top-right image only partially visible.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 15th century
- Medium
- woodcut on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 7813 × 5301 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original