Playing–Cards: King of Hearts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1840 December
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink and watercolour
Dimensions: 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.
Production Description
Production Date: 1840 December
Provenance
Current Location: Robert K. Black
Archival History: WMR; Mrs. Belcher; K. Gregory
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR conceived a set of caricature designs intended to form a pack of comic playing cards. The King of Hearts is portrayed as a bust of Shakespeare (Surtees 1; Marillier 215).
Pictorial
The image here reproduced from The Bookman, is from an 1846 lithograph.
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