Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Cards

[Tanga]

Daniel posted images of two separate decks. I was referring to the Marseille-looking one in the screenshots.

Oh right - I was so engrossed in the promo ones, I forgot the 1st photos.
Lol.
Grace who?

...just googled. I see.

 

[FLizarraga]

@ Flizzara - Childermass like a rock star eh?... Lol. Not my thing. Way too much deep set dark eyes and pouting (Cheers Enzo Clienti! ).

He's doing a good job, though, one has to grudgingly admit....

Given that it IS a work of speculative fiction, I'd like to do some speculating of my own and imagine another deck done, this time something RWS-y, and in the style of the illustrations in the Grace Adieu stories.

It's always wonderful to see that someone is reading Susanna Clark. She's like the secret love child of Jane Austen and Ursula K. LeGuin....

But back to the deck. Neither the promo deck nor the grungy Marseille deck, but the RWS-y Grace Adieu illustration deck. You HAVE to make that happen, Ly.

 

[blue_fusion]

It's always wonderful to see that someone is reading Susanna Clark. She's like the secret love child of Jane Austen and Ursula K. LeGuin....

But back to the deck. Neither the promo deck nor the grungy Marseille deck, but the RWS-y Grace Adieu illustration deck. You HAVE to make that happen, Ly.

Having read Austen and the Earthsea books, I see what you mean, though Ms. Clarke uses more words than Mrs. le Guin. She also looks like Kate Winslet.

I'll leave the new deck to Charles Vess. Believe me, I tried drawing in that style when I was reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and failed miserably at it. Regarding the books, though, I like the dichotomy between ravens and owls, makes me think of the King and Queen of Swords. (And I liked the "visual cacophony" of ravens flying all over the place so much, it became the inspiration for the Tarot Bagong Sining's male Death card. That and L'Engle's singular cherubim).

Going back to the decks Daniel posted... I looked again at the screenshots of the Marseille devk and it's growing on me. Wish they'd release both decks. Though for the promo, something "Goth Austen" might work better.

 

[Debra]

Death is named, unusual
Judgement has some kind of strange long wave or roll diagonally behind the awakened dead.
Hanged Man's tree is an oak, with leaf and acorn.

 

[earthair]

So- Magician Judgement Knight of Wands - anybody have any alternative readings than liar and cheat?!

 

[gregory]

I thought this link was in this thread....

I've only managed to see 15 cards - I think that may be all.

 

[earthair]

I thought this link was in this thread....

I've only managed to see 15 cards - I think that may be all.

Ooo more JS+MN fun

I keep getting the World alternating with the Pope


These are ones I've seen-

Fool
Magician
Page Cups
Death
Hermit (at VIII)
Questing Knight
Hierophant
World
Tower
Judgement
Justice
Hanged Man (at IIX)
Devil
Emperor
The HP

 

[gregory]

Same 15 I have (Questing Knight is Knight Batons, BTW)

They were hand drawn by someone who didn't know his stuff; mistakes will happen !

 

[FLizarraga]

Apparently they used the Dodal as one of the references, as the Papesse is labeled La Pances, and I know of no other deck that does so. (There are threads about it here). The World looks a lot like the Conver's.

One of the two persons falling from the Tower is aflame and already blackened by fire, something I don't remember seeing, ever. Oh, and it's labeled La Torre in Spanish, instead of La Maison Dieu or whatever.

 

[kwaw]

Ooo more JS+MN fun
Hanged Man (at IIX)

The Hanged Man is numbered IIX (possibly a cutting error reversed it -- however reversed or not it is still 12 according to the additive method of Roman Numerals) in the Dodal. As already noted La Pances also suggests the Dodal as one of the models. The Hermit has half a rearing lion on it, apparently on a banner with writing on it, of which only the letter 'D' is shown. The Valet de Coupe also has a background scroll, vertical along the right hand side with the words *** MON DROIT (the visconti Motto?). There is a lot of writing along the left hand side of La Pances but can't make it out. Down the side of the fool is printed:

by T. Davison, Lombard-Street, I. Gould, Shoe-lane
and G. Woodfall, Paternoster-row.

There also appears to be something on the other side showing through (it seems as if some of the drawings are not on plain paper, but have been drawn sheet with printing on them, some of which is on the drawn side, some of which shows through from the oher side.