Playing Card: Ace of Spades
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
n.d.
"Playing Card: Ace of Spades" is a nineteenth-century British drawing depicting a duty Ace of Spades playing card design. Executed on cream wove card, the rectangular composition features a central spade pip enclosed within an elaborate circular border surrounded by a wreath and surmounted by a royal crown. Below the central emblem is a decorative ribbon scroll accompanied by lettering.
The work is rendered using pen and black ink, combined with brush and black wash, as well as traces of gray gouache. The artwork measures 9.2 × 6.4 cm (3 5/8 × 2 9/16 in.). It was produced in the United Kingdom by an unknown artist active during the nineteenth century. The piece entered the collection as part of The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection.
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- Photograph views
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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Pen and black ink, with brush and black wash and traces of gray gouache, on cream wove card
- Dimensions
- 9.2 × 6.4 cm (3 5/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Unknown Artist, British, 19th century
- Place recorded
- United Kingdom
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Art Institute of Chicago collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Playing Card: Ace of Spades
- Museum object number
- 1922.1252
Catalogue references
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