M2007: Playing Card: Queen of Swords
PrintsOn mottled, off-white yellowed card stock, a fine lined engraving depicts a woman with long light brown hair, wearing a gold crown and seated in a gold throne. She is facing us and looking down and to her right. Her right hand cradles the hilt of a sword, its upward pointing blade resting against her shoulder. Her left hand is extended outward, palm up. She wears a blue dress with a white collar, and a long red robe is wrapped around her waist and legs. Five concentric dotted lines form a border around the image.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M2007
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Playing Card: Queen of Swords
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Card XX
Series/Book Title: Tarots Playing Cards for Florentine Game of Minchiate, Complete Set of 97 Cards - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/250835
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving with stenciled opaque watercolor on card
- Technique
- Engraving
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward Waldo Forbes, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1921
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- see W. G. Benham, pp. 5-7
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
- Accession Year
- 1921
- Object Number
- M2007
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/16/2020 - 07/30/2021
Verification Level
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