Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Nine of Diamonds playing card from a pack of transformation playing cards. Vertically, a figural scene in outline depicting a parade of various figures. At left, a row of people: a woman carrying an ax, a male figure with sword, a gentleman in a flowered hat, and a masked figure blowing a horn. At right, a figure dressed as a sea king, a child blowing a trumpet riding a costumed bull, and a male dressed as a devil with a fake nose and pitchfork. Red diamonds integrated into the scene.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century
- Printer
- Belin, France
- Manufacturer
- B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France
- Date
- late 19th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Dexter J. Purinton
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.4 × 7.1 cm (4 1/8 × 2 13/16 in.)
- Type
- toys & games
- Object Name
- Playing card
- Type
- Playing card
