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.

Bibliography

Reproductions

  1. image

    The Bookman (June 1911).
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