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PrintCollection Name: Scott Skinner Collection
Collection Number: 1970
Post Type: Kite Object or Accessory
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Artist or Author: Unknown
Creation Year: 1780
Height: 8 1/4 inches
Width: 5 1/8 inches
Summay:
Book print titled, "Will Sommers, Kinge Heneryes Jester, probably from the late 1700s. Sommers was the jester in Henry the 8th's court and died in 1560, the print is definitely earlier than the early 1800s, and shows children at play behind Sommers; spinning top, stilts, stick and hoop, perhaps juggling, tumbling, and kite flying. Kite is a very crudly depicted diamond kite with tail.
Geographic: United Kingdom
Kite Type: Flat
Significance: Art, Cultural, Historical
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