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Flower cards
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with 36 playing cards (floskaartjes) with depictions of various figures. The images form eighteen pairs, numbered descending from top left number 36 to bottom right number 1. Except for the two lowest numbers, they show seventeen couples, man and woman, with the man just one number higher than the woman, each pair representing a profession or a social position. Numbered in the middle top: n. 165. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en Gewoonten in Engeren Zin, Des menschen beging, midden en einde, Kinderleven – Kinderspel en Kinderprenten.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFloskaartjes. 1833 - 1900. Dirk van Lubeek. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
