M2214: Playing Card: The World (Trump XXXVIIII)
PrintsOn off-white card stock a fine lined engraving depicts a winged male figure, nude except for a green shroud wrapped around his shoulders and waist, against a red background. With pale skin and light brown hair, he stands facing us looking down, his weight on his back, right foot his left knee bending forward. He holds a gold crown aloft in his left hand, and a long gold arrow in his right. He stands atop a gray globe turned to a map labeled “Europa”. Four cherub heads surround it, blowing on it from four different directions. Five concentric dotted lines form a border around the image.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M2214
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Playing Card: The World (Trump XXXVIIII)
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Card XCVI
Series/Book Title: Tarots Playing Cards for Florentine Game of Minchiate, Complete Set of 97 Cards - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/251768
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9.5 × 5.6 cm (3 3/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower center, in plate: Europa
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward W. Forbes, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1922
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
- 1922
- Object Number
- M2214
- 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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