IDENTIFIERS
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id:	224818
accession number:	P.14630-R(20)

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 5 September 2018
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: From a full set of 78 tarot cards of the Piedmont type (Tarocco Piemontese), made in Milan by L. Lamperti. A hand-coloured woodcut with the backs of the cards folded over the edges of the fronts to form a border that is typical of Italian cards. Eight interlaced wands and one down the centre, with a Roman Numeral VIIII (instead of IX, seen also in Coins suit) printed twice. On the verso is a woodcut printed in red ink and hand-coloured in yellow of a winged female figure holding aloft the Iron Crown of Lombardy, the word, MILANO printed below. The Tarocco pack consists of 78 cards: a trump suit of 22 cards, numbered from 0 to 21, and four 14-card suits of swords (spades), batons (bastoni), cups (coppe), and coins (denari). Each suit has a King (Re), Queen (Regina), Knight (Cavaliere) and Jack or Knave (Fante). There are similar sets in the collection of the British Museum. See: 1904,0511.38.1-78 and 1896,0501.120.
title:	playing card

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: J.E. Foster, M.A., 1872-1912

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/224818





TECHNIQUES
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hand colouring
TECHNIQUES
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woodcut

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Lamperti, L.