A presumably incomplete set of ten transformation cards, drawn by Thomas Dyer, with caricatured figures of his family as stated in a 1852 note by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe mounted to the side of the 3 of hearts. Each figure is drawn to incorporat...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dyer, Thomas, approximately 1783-1852, and Dyer, William Charles, 1761-1828,
Each card shows music and lyrics from John Gay's Beggar's opera and a small standard playing card inset in the upper left corner; red suits with stencil colored pips; no tax stamp; maker's details on king of clubs, 10 of spades and ace of hearts
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A collection of pictorial conundrum cards from various unidentified sets of cards trimmed from larger sheets of etched images; also a single drawing signed "R. Ck." suggesting it is his work on the largest set (incomplete) of 19 cards. The other four ...
Three playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn in pen and ink by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures using the shape of the pip, only hearts or diamonds (red watercolor) in this incomplete set. One of the cards (two hearts) featur...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
A set of playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures; each vignette incorporates the formation of hearts or diamonds into the scene. Some of the cards are numbered or annotated on the backs whil...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
Three, carefully hand-drawn transformation cards. The Ace is a scene of calvarymen, one of whom holds a flag, turned to form a diamond shape that has been highlighted in red. The two of diamonds is a scene in a gothic nook of a cardinal reclining, his...
A collection of hand-drawn transformation playing cards using the suit symbols incorporated in the sketches of people in a variety of scenes, some clearly English, others continental. Two examples are a fireside scene illustrating a mother and child (...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
Copper plate for the satirical coat of arms, engraved heraldically, with cards, dice, Earls coronet (Lord Darlington) shaking a dice-box. The arms are encircled by a claret bottle ticker, by way of order. Designed by Horace Walpole and friends (Dick E...
Alternative Title:
Cog it amor nummi
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Playing cards, Coats of arms, and Copperplates
