Playing Cards and Tarot Designs

Colorful and whimsical depictions of tarot and playing cards featuring figures in historical costumes, incorporating vibrant colors and intricate designs.

Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou or Le Mat (The Fool). Date: 20th century

Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou or Le Mat (The Fool). Date: 20th century

Playing cards, Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards, Europe, 17th century, toys & games, Playing cards

Dracole Wajda. Dated: c. 1500. Medium: hand-colored woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card, Stencil-colored woodblock print, Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards., Florence, Italy, 17th century, Playing card, Playing card

Hendrik Goltzius, Mars, probably c 1594 Mars

French 17th century playing card. (1659)

Knave of Nooses, from The Cloisters Playing Cards ca. 1475-80 South Netherlandish The Cloisters set of fifty-two cards constitutes the only known complete deck of illuminated ordinary playing cards (as opposed to tarot cards) from the fifteenth century. There are four suits, each consisting of a king, queen, knave, and ten pip cards. The suit symbols, based on equipment associated with the hunt, are hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses. The value of the pip cards is indicated by appropriate repetitions of the suit symbol. The figures, which appear to be based on Franco-Flemish models, were drawn in a bold, free, and engaging, if somewhat unrefined, hand. Their exaggerated and sometimes anachronistic costumes suggest a lampoon of extravagant Burgundian court fashions. Although some period card games are named, it is not known how they were played. Almost all card games did, however, involve some form of gambling. The condition of the set indicates that the cards we

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Allegory of Wisdom late 16th-early 17th century Anonymous, Swiss, late 16th to early 17th century Swiss. Allegory of Wisdom. Anonymous, Swiss, late 16th to early 17th century. late 16th-early 17th century. Watercolor and gold over graphite. Drawings

Hoop, Ugo da Carpi (Possibly), After Parmigianino, 1502 - 1532 print A female personification of the hope (spes), kneeling and with hands in prayer. Italy paper Hope, 'Spes'; 'Speranza divina e certa' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues

Knave of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards ca. 1475-80 South Netherlandish The Cloisters set of fifty-two cards constitutes the only known complete deck of illuminated ordinary playing cards (as opposed to tarot cards) from the fifteenth century. There are four suits, each consisting of a king, queen, knave, and ten pip cards. The suit symbols, based on equipment associated with the hunt, are hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses. The value of the pip cards is indicated by appropriate repetitions of the suit symbol. The figures, which appear to be based on Franco-Flemish models, were drawn in a bold, free, and engaging, if somewhat unrefined, hand. Their exaggerated and sometimes anachronistic costumes suggest a lampoon of extravagant Burgundian court fashions. Although some period card games are named, it is not known how they were played. Almost all card games did, however, involve some form of gambling. The condition of the set indicates that the cards w

Seated Young Woman with a Muff (Jeune femme assise au manchon). Dimensions: 47 cm x 35.2 cm, 40.6 cm x 31 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: Louis Valtat.

Playing Card

Woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the Elder around 1510 depicting the allegorical figure of Caution, showing posture, attire, and symbolic attributes in detailed composition.

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939). Incantation (Salammbo), ca. 1897. Color lithograph on wove paper. Sheet: 405 mm x 308 mm (15.94 in. x 12.13 in.).

It leads to victory (IT)

Workshop of Master of the Aachen Madonna, Saint Christopher, 1470 1480 Saint Christopher

The Umpire, "Low Ball, Jimmy," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1888-89 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Terrors of America" series (N136), issued in a set of 50 cards in 1889 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. The original lithographs for the series were created by Knapp & Company, N.Y. This is the second time that Duke released the "Terrors of America" series. The cards of the first set (N88) are smaller than N136 cards.. The Umpire, "Low Ball, Jimmy," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. 1888-89. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

Arms of the State of New York, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.. Arms of the State of New York, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Design for costume for menalcas. .

F.e d l'Isle Sandwick from playing cards "Jeu d'Or" 1700-1799 Anonymous, French, 18th century. F.e d l'Isle Sandwick from playing cards "Jeu d'Or". Anonymous, French, 18th century. 1700-1799. Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

The New Arlequinspel (N. 52) Le Nouveau Jeu d'Arlequin, Brepols & Dierckx son, 1870 - 1880 Printed game in color printing. Turnwood paper printing

literture ""Eulenspiegel"" title of the 1st edition printed by Johannes Gr»ninger Strassburg 1515 British Museum London,

The Actor Sakata Hangoro II as the Sumo Wrestler Kujaku Saburo Narihira () in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi (), Performed at the Ichimura Theater () in the Eleventh Month, 1776 (). Katsukawa Shunko I; Japanese, 1743-1812. Date: 1771-1781. Dimensions: 29.5 x 14.2 cm (11 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.). Color woodblock print; hosoban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Playing cards, Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards, Europe, 17th century, toys & games, Playing cards

Second balloon ascent of Dr. Andre-Jacques Garnerin with Citizen Henri at the Parc Monceau, Paris, 8 July 1798. Seconde ascension du Physicien Garnerin avec le Citoyenne Henri au Parc de Mousseaux, le 5 Thermidor An 6. Copied from Le Journal des Dames et des Modes, An VI, supplement to Costumes Parisiens. Handcoloured pochoir lithograph by Marcel Bry from Raymonde Sees Le Costume de la Revolution a nos Jours, Editions de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1929.

Man and woman next to winged figure; In a distant world. In the middle a figure with long hair and a beard and three pairs of spread wings. On the left is a woman; Right a man with a sik. Both keep their hand stretched in the direction of the winged figure.

Playing card from the game of Piquet of Charles VII (sometimes called 'Coursube'). Attributed initially to the 15th Century but published in Lyon at the start of the 17th Century.

The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene. Dated: c. 1480. Medium: woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, blue, green, rose, gold, and orange. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Collier's. Dramatic number. Bradley, Will, 1868-1962. Posters. 1894 - 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection

Playing card of a magical being belonging to a court vendor from the beginning of the 17th Century.

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-4-19

Collage of expressed prints stuck on album leaf of blue paper. One of seventeen collages from folder.

Arms of the State of New York, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.. Arms of the State of New York, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Summer

Götze, Georg.

Bauern Hochzeit, Baurn Hochzeit, Göbl, Andreas Benedictus, 1765-1792, ink, gold board, with gilt edges, ca. 1765, 1 boxed deck of playing cards, etching, stencil, hand col., 11.5 x 7 x 3 cm.

Mat' shliakhticha.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Coloured illustration of playing card. Edited by Hector of Trois, mid 17th Century.

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads.

St. John in Prison, from Das Plenarium. Artist: Hans Schäufelein (German, Nuremberg ca. 1480-ca. 1540 Nördlingen). Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16 in. (9.5 × 6.8 cm). Publisher: Adam Petri (German, active Basel, 1507-27). Date: 1517. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Hans Schäufelein.

F.e de la B. des Manilles from Playing Cards (for Quartets) 'Costumes des Peuples Étrangers'. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/16 in. (8.1 × 5.3 cm). Date: 1700-1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a banner with Mars, Wapentuig and Het Wapen van Rotterdam, Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755 drawing paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil brush / pen (story of) Mars (Ares) Rotterdam

Greek warriors in helmets, armour, and labarum standards. They hold shields and lances. A woman brings a patera bowl and vase. From an ancient vase in the collection of Sir William Hamilton. Elmi, Armature, labaro. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Paglianti from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1842.

Allegory of the Republic holding a pique with the Phrygian cap, at its feet of musical instruments, a map (TF)

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-1-7

fine arts, middle ages, Gothic, illumination, Codex Manesse, Zurich, 1305 - 1340, Wernher von Teufen, covering colour on vellum, University of Heidelberg Library, Werner, riding hosrde, couple, lovers, lady, hunting, falconry, falcon, coat of arms, miniature, minnesinger, minstrel, Germany, 14th century, historic, historical,

Noli Me Tangere. Artist Unknown; Bavarian, 15th century. Date: 1460-1465. Dimensions: 100 × 75 mm (plate); 105 × 80 mm (sheet). Metalcut in black hand colored with brush and watercolor in yellow, red-brown lake, and green, on ivory laid paper, with manuscript text in pen and brown ink on verso. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Hab.t de l'Isle de Paques from Playing Cards (for Quartets) 'Costumes des Peuples Étrangers'. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/16 in. (8.1 × 5.3 cm). Date: 1700-1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A question stamp showing a winged women At the set table and the shield below Herb and TBP monogram; around 1914 1920 (1914-00-00-1920-00-00);

Turkish women walking Constantine Guys (1802-1892). Turkish women walking. Ink of China, Lavis, watercolor.

Hab.t de l'Espagne from Playing Cards (for Quartets) 'Costumes des Peuples Étrangers'. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/16 in. (8.1 × 5.3 cm). Date: 1700-1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Martyrdom of a Saint. Dated: c. 1480. Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, yellow, blue, rose, gold, and orange. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

American 20th Century, Plate 45 Embroidered Bedspread (St James) From Portfolio Spanish Colonial Designs of New Mexico, 1935 1942 Plate 45: Embroidered Bedspread (St. James): From Portfolio Spanish Colonial Designs of New Mexico

Coloured illustration of playing card from Limousin published by D. Poileve in the 16th-century in Limoges.

Design for a banner with Mars, coat of arms and the coat of arms of Rotterdam, draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755, paper, brush, pen, h 330 mm × w 208 mm

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 6, "His Spectre driv'n....", 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Christmas card from Jean Charlot. Artist: Anonymous. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 5 1/2 in. (22 × 14 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Minoan snake goddess. Ivory and gold, 16th century B. C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Figurines, Antiquities, Goddesses, Snakes. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

ESTAMPA DE CAJA DE CERILLAS. Location: FOSFORERA ESPAÑOLA. MADRID. SPAIN.

St. Christopher 15th century Anonymous, German, 15th century German. St. Christopher 382471 Artist: Anonymous, German, 15th century, St. Christopher, 15th century, Metalcut, hand -colored, sheet: 1 5/8 x 1 7/16 in. (4.2 x 3.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930 (31.54.176)

The Mat de Cocagne The Mast of Cocagne ". Estampe.

New arlequin game. Board game with a harlequin in the middle of the playing field that holds a bag in its opened hands with the figure 7. Around him a garland to which medallions hang with the numbers 2 to 12. In the undermaster the game rules in letterpress. Numbered at the top right: No. 21.

EDWARD VII Cartoon Date: 1841 - 1910

Design for costume for arethusa ..

Vor na iablone.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550), The Weather Peasant: "Es ist Kalt Weter", 1542, engraving on laid paper

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads.

Print made by William O'Keefe, active 1794-1807, A Vision, Vide, the Monster of Slaughter, The Distress of Nations; Deluge of Blodd, 1796. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

The seven wonders of the world. Statue of Jupiter Olympus.. The seven wonders of the world. Statue of Jupiter Olympus.

Adam and Eve. Dated: c. 1460. Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, tan, and ochre. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Francisquina (Commedia dell'Arte) 2001 Leslie Xuereb (b.1959/French)

Christ Child on Donkey. Dated: c. 1500. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.1 x 5.5 cm (3 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.). Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in yellow, rose, and brown. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Depicts a girl and an old man, created as a colored woodcut by Hans Wandereisen in 1519, showing figures, gestures, and background elements.

The Man of Sorrows. Artist Unknown; German. Date: 1470-1480. Dimensions: 185 x 121 mm (image/sheet). Hand-colored woodcut, printed on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: UNKNOWN ARTIST.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card, Stencil-colored woodblock print, Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards., Florence, Italy, 17th century, Playing card, Playing card

Colored woodcut by an anonymous artist titled 'The Holy Hieronymus with the Lion,' created around 1430, depicting Saint Hieronymus accompanied by a lion.

Vos in Monnikspij (Reinaert) with Haas (Cuwaert) near Vossin (Hermeline) and Cubs in Vossenhol, Bernard Willem Wierink, 1910 print paper fable of Reynard the Fox

I Saw Three Ships, Walter Crane

A Vision, Vide, the Monster of Slaughter, The Distress of Nations; Deluge of Blodd, Print made by William O'Keefe, active 1794-1807, 1796, Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (35.2 × 25.1 cm) and Image: 10 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (27.6 × 21.6 cm)

Gola - Ottobre - Scorpione Gola (Gluttony). 1600 - 1699. Temini, Alessandro (Italian artist, active 1650). Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Allegories

Retablo. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 51.4 x 27.8 cm (20 1/4 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 26 1/4"high; 11"wide. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Carl O'Bergh.

Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus) activel150 AD Alexandrian Greek/Egyptian astronomer and geographer, using quadrant to measure altitude of Moon. Behind him stands Urania, Muse of Astronomy. He is shown wearing crown as he was sometimes confused with the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt.

Charles , or Charles the Bald (823-877), 9th-century king of West Francia and Italy, emperor of the Carolingian Empire. From the dedication page of the Bible of San Paolo fuori le mura, MS f.1.m, c.870, In the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1827.

Spider and Indian man bitten by spider by Fra Bernardino de Sahagun from The Code of Florence ""Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana"" by Fra Bernardino de Sahagun in Spanish and Nahuatl, facsimile, 16th century

The figures shown here are representative of people in the 12th and 13th centuries. They represent, from left to right: kaiser (king), king, duke, feudal lord, judge of feudal law, judge (count) of feudal law. The illustration dates to 1882.

Design for: diploma for loyal service at the Dutch Gist and Spiritus factory, Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1924 print. certificate Hermes, recognizable by his winged sandals and petasus (hat), which holds a flower wreath. To all a frame with a so -called Caduceus on the left and right, a two -hoses, and the city weapons of Delft and Bruges. At the top of the text 'The management of the Dutch Gist and Spiritusfabriek has awarded the honor sign for ... year -old Getting married service to ...'. paper (story of) Mercury (Hermes). garland, wreath

Sistema de señales telegráficas de la marina de guerra. Lenguaje internacional de banderas y código Morse. Letra H. Dibujo de Apel·les Mestres. Años 1930. Author: APEL·LES MESTRES I OÑÓS.

Snakes and nine figures. 1500 - 1701. Illustrations. Spencer Collection. Signs and symbols

Eight Kyiv, in: deck of cards to Wista. National Card Factory J.C. du Porta

Color print depicting artist paints and painting cloth by Dr. Fr. Schoenfeld & Co., Düsseldorf, created around 1900.

Sistema de señales telegráficas de la marina de guerra. Lenguaje internacional de banderas y código Morse. Letra A. Dibujo de Apel·les Mestres. Años 1930. Author: APEL·LES MESTRES I OÑÓS.

Hab.t de Nootka from Playing Cards (for Quartets) 'Costumes des Peuples Étrangers'. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/16 in. (8.1 × 5.3 cm). Date: 1700-1799. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hab.ts de la Georgie from playing cards "Jeu d'Or" 1700-1799 Anonymous, French, 18th century. Hab.ts de la Georgie from playing cards "Jeu d'Or". Anonymous, French, 18th century. 1700-1799. Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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