2-704-308 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Playing cards, 16th century?, (1849). Jacks, kings and queens from a set of cards. One of the queens is Roxane, wife of Alexander the Great, and King David is shown with his harp. 19th century illustration after a manuscript in the Bibliotheque Royale. From Volume 2 of "Le Moyen Age Et La Renaissance", (The Middle Ages and the Renaissance), edited by Paul Lacroix, artistic direction by Ferdinand Seré [Paris, 1849]