1593000236000 1536161095000 Standard Record object-225217 1747160830766 1711457663000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-225217 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225217 3e425a4a-6f40-3aa1-a6fb-5eb2e84925ef 6 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints 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'. P.14638-R(2) 1 accession number P.14638-R(2) 225217 priref 225217 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225217 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225217 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum unknown reference agent-161926 adlib-agent-161926 86919954-05dc-38f8-8246-d58fdb3b58cb unknown 1540 1540 1540 circa 1540 1560 1 1560 1560 circa 1560 printmaker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown publisher reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown height 109mm x width 73mm reference term-106602 adlib-term-106602 bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e 16th Century reference term-94829 adlib-term-94829 7f4ebbd8-99be-3d4c-91b4-0632f2758469 playing card reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-8399 adlib-term-8399 6611ae15-9298-340e-8c20-9fc4c7a76bf8 French

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