IDENTIFIERS
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id:	224853
accession number:	P.14630-R(55)

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. Nine decorated coins with two decorative flower motifs at the centre. The Roman Numeral VIIII (instead of IX, seen also in Bastoni 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/224853





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.