Hand-colored card showing a crowned seated woman in green and red holding a sceptre and cherries, with the numeral II.

Minchiate Tarot Playing Card, Queen with Sceptre and Cherries

A hand-colored woodblock card showing a crowned, seated female figure in a green and red gown with yellow drapery, holding a fleur-de-lis sceptre in one hand and a sprig of cherries in the other. Numeral II appears at upper left, framed by a white border with a patterned band below.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 17th century
Medium: Stencil-colored woodblock print
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 1602 × 2531 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1700).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

17th century woodblock print playing card minchiate tarot card stencil colored early modern queen sceptre