centuriespast:

Playing card; Tomyris seated on horseback facing front, with a quiver of arrows on her back and an exotic headdress, with a battlefield behind to right and military camp behind to left; from a pack of 52 playing cards of famous queens. 1644

Print made by Stefano della Bella

The British Museum

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