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Published / Created:: [1650?]
Call Number:: HOL28
Image Count:: 40
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: BEIN HOL28: Imperfect: ace of marigolds; jack of shields; king of quatrefoils, queen of marigolds; 6, 2 of grapes; 10, 9, 2 of shields; 7, 3 of quatrefoils; 10, 6 of marigolds. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Playing cards
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dutch playing cards

Published / Created:: [between 1800 and 1820?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 96 Shelved in Object Room A:A
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Designs for Georgian playing cards] [art original].

Published / Created:: [between 1800 and 1820?]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 92 Shelved in Object Room A:A
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Georgian transformation playing cards] [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1820]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 100 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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...
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):: Playing cards
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Transformation playing cards] [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1800]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 97 Shelved in Object Room A:A
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Transformation playing cards] [art original].

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