The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards

The deck is the creation of R. Fanto (also responsible for the artwork in the Ulysses a Vau-de-Ville), copyrighted in 1986, with the close collaboration of Richard Ellmann, a biographer of both Wilde and Joyce. The 2 cards below are Salome as the Queen of Hearts and Victoria Regina as the King of Clubs.

The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards condense Wilde into pictorial form. Three suits are based upon his writings: Hearts are Instigations, Clubs are Images, Diamonds are Complications. Spades are Happenings in his life. Richard Ellmann, Wilde's biographer, has devised the intricate scheme, and R. Fanto has executed the witty and unexpected drawings, with occasional allusion to previous designs.

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