Four of Spades
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century
label: Printer
content: Belin, France
label: Manufacturer
content: B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four of Spades playing card from a pack of transformation playing cards. Female figure and child depicted in outline, the woman seated on a stool at right with a small child standing on her lap. The woman wears a long dress and a head scarf, the black symbol of the spade covers her face. A few facial features are indicated, depicting a stereotypical black mammy figure. The spade at left is integrated with the boy's image so that it appears as a hat. The two spades below form the cut-out decoration in two stools.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Dexter J. Purinton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-78-14-4
objectType: label: Type
content: toys & games
label: Object Name
content: Playing card
label: Type
content: Playing card
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lithograph on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.4 × 7.1 cm (4 1/8 × 2 13/16 in.)