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Description: | Small playing card from a set with Northern Italian suits, representing the jack, or Fante, of swords. The front of the card has an elaborate design in blue, yellow, red, green and black. The jack holds a sword in his right hand, pointing down, and a decapitated head in his left. The card is divided in two, with the design appearing upside down in the lower half. The back of the card has a blue fleur-de-lis pattern.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.385i.16 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | paper (fiber product) paper playing cards Family and Home pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-220486 | Go to resource |
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