Minchiate Tarot Playing Card with Wheel and Winged Figure

A hand-colored woodblock print of a tarot-style card with a Roman numeral VIIII beside a large wheel. A winged, animal-headed figure rises above the wheel while a clinging figure at left and reclining figures below are painted in red, green, and yellow stencil colors within a thin black frame.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Stencil-colored woodblock print

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1663 × 2579 px

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