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Playing Card: The King of Clubs (Alexandre)

about 1750-1775

Medium/Technique Woodcut, printed in color (possibly a modern reproduction)
Dimensions Sheet: 8.3 × 5.4 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Image (borderline): 8 × 5.1 cm (3 1/8 × 2 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number2002.586
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsVerso, in pen and brown ink, "Pocholles, en Picardie de gueules à la Croix d'or, e acompagnée d'un Epervier s'essorant de même"
ProvenanceEleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; bequest to MFA