Antique Minchiate tarot card with a dense crisscross of swords with gold hilts and red-dotted tips on a pale border.

Minchiate Tarot Card with Swords

A rectangular playing card with a pale border shows a dense crossing pattern of slender swords, their hilts ornamented in gold and their tips capped with red dots. Thin dark outlines and flat color fill suggest a stencil-colored woodblock print typical of Minchiate tarot cards.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 17th century
Medium: Stencil-colored woodblock print
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 1622 × 2547 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

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