Minchiate
15662.54
From: Italy | Firenze | Florence (Italy)
Curatorial Section: Historic
Object Title | Minchiate |
Object Number | 15662.54 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Italian |
Provenience | Italy | Firenze | Florence (Italy) |
Period | 18th Century |
Date Made | ca. 1725 |
Section | Historic |
Materials | Paper |
Technique | Watercolor |
Iconography | History | Rome | Greece | Assyria | Persian |
Description | 15662.54 - Wands IV - Roma = Rome - black on buff paper. Back: Wrapped back with black heraldic crest and stippling. Medici Coat of Arms. Incomplete deck with 57 out of 97 cards present. See 19314 - identical deck. See 15663 - similar face with different back Card Came/Deck - Minchiate Istoriche / Educational Historic cards featuring Assyria, Persia Greece and Rome. Copper Engraving: Anton Giuseppe Molinelli Playing Card Concession 1721-1731; Designed by Antonio Pazzi (1706-1766) with the assistance of his teacher Cosimo Mogalli (1667-1730). Unnumbered Trump card with "Status vedutada Nabucco" also reads "A. Pazzi fcolpi con l'affiftenzadi C Mogalli = made by A. Pazzi with the assistance of C. Mogalli" |
Height | 10 cm |
Width | 6 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Francis C. Macauley, 1893 |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.