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Six of Roses (from a series of 72 playing cards)

(German, active about 1499–about 1503)
about 1503
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 7.1 x 7 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous gift in memory of FitzRoy Carrington
Accession number55.135
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, left of top rose: . 6 .; lower center: . VI .
Provenance1955, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 10, 1955)

NOTE: In her article "Two Playing Cards by the Master P. W," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 53, no. 292 (Summer, 1955), pp. 22-23, curator Anna C. Hoyt wrote that the print "was found in a miscellaneous assortment of flower prints, chiefly eighteenth-century." On the back is written in pencil: "C. Mellan," suggesting it may once have been attributed to Claude Mellan.
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Saint Catherine
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Upper-Knave of Pinks (one of 72 playing card)
Master PW of Cologne
about 1503
Master PW of Cologne
Group shot: 30.670-1
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1800
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about 1490–1500
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about 1475–80
19th/early 20th century photograph of the print
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about 1475–80
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about 1490-1513
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about 1490-1513
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