IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225182 accession number: P.89-1944(8) DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Four small coins arranged around a large central coin which features a coat of arms (probably Castile and León). The card is unnumbered. Hand coloured woodcut on pasteboard. From an incomplete pack, 38 of 40 playing cards of a stripped Spanish deck in the Cadiz pattern, made in Madrid in 1812 by Felix Solesio & Sons. The 8 and 9 cards are missing in all suits, indicating the stripped deck, and additionally the Jack of Clubs and the Five of Clubs are lost. The Spanish term for the suit of Coins is 'Oros'. Each suit is identified by an outline frame known as 'la pinta', which distinguishes the suit without showing the whole card; the Cups have one interruption, the Swords two, the Clubs three, and the Coins none (as is seen here). 'La pinta' first appeared around the mid-17th century. The backs of the cards are printed in blue ink with a repeated pattern of star shapes composed of eight small dots with an isolated dot separating each star. title: playing card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Revd. F.M. Yglesias, 1944-07 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225182 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1892 - 1892 creation date earliest: 1892 creation date latest: 1892 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Felix Solesio & Sons