King of Clubs
Printmaker:
Unknown
Publisher:
Unknown
A hand-coloured woodcut on pasteboard laid down on a large piece of mount board (height 407mm x 277mm) with six other cards from the same pack. A complete playing card portaying the King of Clubs ('Trèfles'), crowned and beardless, seated on a throne, facing right and holding a sceptre in his right hand. The suit-marker is at upper right and an inscription in Old French is printed along the right edge: 'honneur.au.roy' [trans. 'Honour to the King']. The image and text are contained within a border. French suits adopted the standing kings and queens of Spanish suits during the 15th-century and so the seated king here may indicate an earlier legacy of seated kings from German suits from which French suits derive.The style of the designs, especially in the facial features and hair, is very similar to those made by Jehan Faucil in Rouen in France during the early-mid 16th century. Faucil was active in Rouen c.1540-c.1560. See uncut and uncoloured sheets in the British Museum collection: 1851,0208.13-18. A handwritten inscription in graphite at lower right on the recto of the mount board: 'From the Brent Eleigh Library: found / shut up between the leaves of a book. / 1891'. Another inscription in graphite in a different hand (probably Eric Chamberlain, Assistant Keeper of Prints, 1962-1975) on the verso of the mount board: 'French / ?early 16th century'.
Unknown
by unknown
16th Century
Circa
1540
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Circa
1560
Height 109mm x width 73mm
Accession number: P.14638-R(2)
Primary reference Number: 225217
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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