Pictures of men reading cards prior to 1960??

Teheuti

coredil said:
Thanks.
Fine, it works with a direct link to the pic :)
I have now edited post 19 of this thread and it works :)
Really good picture! Just the kind of thing I'm looking for.
 

coredil

This is a picture from the russian painter Mikhaïl Vroubel (or Vrubel) (1856-1910)
"Le diseur de bonne aventure"
Here it is named as "diseur" but more often as "diseuse".
To me it looks like a woman, but who knows?
And maybe you like the picture ;)

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It comes from this site:
http://republique-froceuse.xooit.com/t10179-PERSO-Mikhail-Vroubel-ou-Vrubel.htm

Best regards
 

Teheuti

coredil said:
This is a picture from the russian painter Mikhaïl Vroubel (or Vrubel) (1856-1910)
"Le diseur de bonne aventure"
It's already up on my blog - thanks though.
 

Cerulean

I thought the person on the right...pointy shoes? Might be masculine?

I didn't think I saw this one posted already...

The person with the pointy shoes...is this a man? There's an 'alchemical' look to this scene...

Cerulean
 

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Cerulean

Well...book cover?

Fortune Telling By Cards by Professor P.R.S. Foli (Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson).
This copy in hardcover by R.F. Fenno & Company. It's been republished several times.

Professor P. R. S. Foli

Author of "Fortune Teller" "Dream Book," etc

R. P. FENNO & COMPANY
18 East 17th Street, New York

[first published 1915]

Text also on SuperTarot (Paul Hughes-Barlow)
http://supertarot.co.uk/bookfoli/

By the way, Sir Cyril was quite an interesting fellow!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Arthur_Pearson
 

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Teheuti

Cerulean said:
I didn't think I saw this one posted already...

The person with the pointy shoes...is this a man? There's an 'alchemical' look to this scene...

Cerulean
I had forgotten all about this one. Thanks. There is, of course, a question about what is actually going on, but it represents a possibility.

Anyone know where this picture first appears?

Mary
 

Bernice

Amazing that images of male cartmancers are so hard to find.

I came across this, it looks like an old tatty poster, an advert;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/386700735/

I also have an old book, A Treasury of Witchcraft. Plenty of entrails etc. but not a card in sight!

Bee :)
 

Teheuti

Bernice said:
Amazing that images of male cartmancers are so hard to find.

I came across this, it looks like an old tatty poster, an advert;
This is a good one - but, again, it doesn't show a man actually reading the cards. It's more the attitude of a lecturer or promoter (even if he does read the cards). He seems to be establishing himself as "the authority."
 

Cerulean

Hello Mary, the pointy shoe cartomancer is on a book cover

Teheuti said:
I had forgotten all about this one. Thanks. There is, of course, a question about what is actually going on, but it represents a possibility.

Anyone know where this picture first appears?

Mary

Jeux de Cartes Tarots et de Cartes Numerales
by
Jean Duchesne,

First Edition Limited Issue one of 132 copies
Paris; Crapelet, 1844

It was the cover of the Christie's Auction Catalogue of the Kaplan auction of their card collection of Wednesday, June 21, 2006, lot 221.

It seems the two I found were book covers by card readers, but you are right, it is a rare thing. I'll look through the catalog to see if there are any other book covers with men. Unfortunately when I see it in more detail, the woman has cards in her hand and the man does appear to be holding the cards--but his gesture might be one of surprise or excitement with one hand, and he may also be balancing a stick on edge of his fingers and also holding cards--so it's hard to know if he is reading the cards.

Regards,

Cerulean
 

Cerulean

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Cerulean