Playing Card with Ten Yellow Rosettes, 17th Century

A playing card with a cream border and a red-ruled frame holds ten yellow rosettes, each with a red center, arranged in a loose grid and scattered with four small red dots. The hand-colored stencil print has a flat, decorative style with simple outlines and faded pigments on aged paper.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Stencil-colored woodblock print

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1622 × 2547 px

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