Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card

A seated crowned female figure holds a scepter topped with a red orb and rests one hand on her knee on a throne-like chair. She wears a yellow bodice, green sleeves and a red skirt, outlined in black, with stencil-applied color on a paper card bordered by star motifs.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Stencil-colored woodblock print

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1682 × 2593 px

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