This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2023
[PLAYING CARDS] Habit de Cartier. Paris: Chez N. de L’Armessin, ca. 1715. Etching of a playing card maker resplendent in a costume crafted from the tools of his trade, from a later edition of Costumes Grotesques et les Metiers. 13 5/8 x 9 ¾”. Marginal soiling and contemporary notations. This imaginative image, one of thirty-eight by L’Armessin of tradesmen fancifully garbed in the trappings of their work, was an early trademark for Mr. Jay, who used the picture frequently to advertise his own work – of an entirely different nature – with a pack of playing cards.