M2073: Playing Card: Cancer (Trump XXX)
PrintsOn off-white card stock a fine lined engraving depicts a crab balancing on one set of legs, while the legs on the opposite side are sticking straight up in the air. The crab has four legs on each side, and it balances on three of its left legs while holding its two large claws out in front of it. The crab is printed with a yellow-orange color, while the ground it stands on is printed green. The Roman numeral “XXX”, appears at upper left, and five concentric dotted lines form a border around the image.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M2073
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Playing Card: Cancer (Trump XXX)
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Card LXXXVI
Series/Book Title: Tarots Playing Cards for Florentine Game of Minchiate, Complete Set of 97 Cards - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/251721
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving with stenciled opaque watercolor on card
- Technique
- Engraving
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper left, in plate: XXX.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward Waldo Forbes, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1921
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
- 1921
- Object Number
- M2073
- 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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