The Zagreb National Hall playing cards for tarot


Zagreb published by Joseph Back 1847-1848 Cardboard, coloured copperplate engraving 10 x 54.5 cm, 54 cards Tarot cards decorated with town views and figures dressed in folk costumes and costumes from the first performance of the opera 'Ljubav i zloba' (Love and Malice) by Vatroslav Lisinski. Tarot number V shows the National Hall, the palace in Opaticka Street that had housed the National Museum. On the heart/walker card the signature reads: IZDATE PO JOSIPU BACKU / U ZAGREBU, and on the heart/horseman card the motto reads: SLOGA OD BOGA, with the Illyrian star and half-moon. Apart from housing the National Museum, the National Hall building also had a large hall on the first floor in which balls and social gatherings were held; that hall gave the cards their name. Place and time of acquisition unknown; the cards are a part of the museum inventory from the end of the 19th century. M. Schneider, Dvorane zagrebacke karte, Iz starog i novog Zagreba II, Zagreb, 1960, pages 205-224; M. Schneider, Narodne nosnje u slikarstvu i grafici XIX stoljeca, Zagreb, 1971, page 80, catalogue number 132 Hrvatski narodni preporod 1790-1848, (exhibition catalogue), Zagreb, 1985, page 146, catalogue number 632.




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