IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225013
accession number:	P.14633-R(15)

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 5 September 2018
updated:	Tuesday 26 March 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A male standing figure, facing left and holding a large cup in his right hand and the lid of the cup in his left. A title printed below: 'VALLT.[sic] DE.COUPE', the French-language face card, 'Valet' (Knave) of 'Coupes' (Cups). From an incomplete pack of Tarot of Marseille, with Italian suits, 73 of 78 (including one partial card). The Two of Coins is inscribed with the publisher's name: 'J . FRANCOIS . TOURCATY . FILS', followed by 'ANNO', although no year of publication is given. 'J. François Tourcaty fils' was the son of playing-card maker and engraver, Jean François Tourcaty (1734-53), who was based in Marseilles. The son's dates are thought to be 1763-1793 after. Missing cards are: King and Queen of Cups, Five of Cups, Three of Swords and Two of Clubs. The trump pack is complete, although the lower half of the first card, 'Le Bateleur', is missing. The numerals of 12, 'The Hanged Man' are printed back-to-front as 'IIX'. A number of the cards are inscribed with initials: 'E.S.' on Two of Swords, Six of Swords and Eight of Swords; 'Le Chariot' bears the initials 'F.T.' ; All the numeral cards of the suit of Clubs are inscribed with the letters, 'B.A.'. The backs of the cards are printed in blue with a 'diamond' pattern. This pack contains suppressed and missing court cards where regal titles and crowns have been effaced and similarly in the trump pack, the titles and crowns of characters on such cards as the Pope, Popess, Emperor and Empress are missing. This suppression of sovereignty was common practice in playing-card production during the revolutionary period in France, 1789-1799, and continued into the early nineteenth century. Other collections hold similarly suppressed packs: See Bibliothèque nationale de France: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb409185685. Another set, similarly censored, is in the collection of the British Museum: 1896,0501.568.1-58. See O'Donoghue, Freeman, Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, London, BM, 1901, no. 17.
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: Bequeathed by Spencer George Perceval, 1923

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225013





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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creation date:	1789 - 1799
creation date earliest:	1789
creation date latest:	1799
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Tourcaty, J. Francois, fils