Accession number
PML 88566
Published
[Germany?] : [s.n.], [184-]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Title from lid of box.
Deck of 36 numbered cards. Each card displays the number and a miniature card in the upper part, while the lower part has a vignette of an object that symbolizes the value of the card. Issued with a four-page leaflet describing the game in German and French.
Marie-Anne Lenormand, 1772-1843, was famous as a fortune teller in France. After her death in 1843, her name was used on several cartomancy decks, including a deck of 36 illustrated cards known as the Petit Lenormand. The cards were modelled on a deck of cards published around 1800 as Das Spiel der Hoffnung, a game of chance that was designed by Johann Kaspar Hechtel of Nuremberg.
"Aus der Handlung des Franz Kietaibl zum Chineser in der Oberbraünerstrasse No. 1136 in Wien"--label on box.
Deck of 36 numbered cards. Each card displays the number and a miniature card in the upper part, while the lower part has a vignette of an object that symbolizes the value of the card. Issued with a four-page leaflet describing the game in German and French.
Marie-Anne Lenormand, 1772-1843, was famous as a fortune teller in France. After her death in 1843, her name was used on several cartomancy decks, including a deck of 36 illustrated cards known as the Petit Lenormand. The cards were modelled on a deck of cards published around 1800 as Das Spiel der Hoffnung, a game of chance that was designed by Johann Kaspar Hechtel of Nuremberg.
"Aus der Handlung des Franz Kietaibl zum Chineser in der Oberbraünerstrasse No. 1136 in Wien"--label on box.
Description
1 deck of cards (36 cards) : ill. (handcol. engravings), each card: 7.5 x 4.2 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's wooden box with handcolored engraved pictorial label pasted on lid. (9.4 x 10.5 x 2.4 cm).
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