Playing Cards — "Knavery of the Rump"
(London: Randal Taylor, c. 1681)
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Playing Cards — "Knavery of the Rump"
52 playing cards. Engravings on paper, with plain versos; without the title card, light soiling, a few spots of edgewear, trimmed close, occasionally just inside the border. 13 of the cards are mounted in a frame, the rest are housed in a folder attached to the back of the frame.
3½ by 2⅛ in. (cards); 26 by 20 in. (frame)
9 by 5.25 cm; 66 by 51 cm
Jaime Ortiz-Patiño (Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2013, English literature, history, children's books and illustrations, lot 222)
Acquired at the above sale by the present collector
Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection of Early Playing Cards, #42;
Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the British Museum by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, #60
A deck of political satire playing cards, after designs by the English painter, etcher, and illustrator Francis Barlow. This deck lampoons Oliver Cromwell's Rump Parliament of 1648-1653, depicting the major characters and events during this early period in Cromwell's Commonwealth of England. The deck was first published in 1679, presumably after having been engraved in Holland during the exile of Charles II, but it was only printed after the restoration of the monarchy. Some of the notable scenes include "Oliver declares himself and the rebells to be the Gadly party," and "Oliver seeking God while the K[ing] is murthered by his order."
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