"The Tarot" by Richard Cavendish (split from Tarot Books & Media)

Lillie

• #11

That's interesting!
It would have been good to see them.

I think when they say painting they mean the cards she painted.

When was the Cavendish book first published?

And how many times have the card paintings been photographed?
And does the warburg have both aeon paintings, or just one, and if they have just one, where is the other.

And did the one that was exhibited have the Fat Kid on it or not????

Ah, all these questions with no answers...

I wonder what Crowley's painting was like.
He wasn't a very good artist...

 

gregory

• #12

Cavendish - first published 1975. He was born in 1930 and as far as I know is still alive.....

I don't know about the exhibit....

I wish I had been paying attention at the time. I could have gone to the exhibition !

 

Lillie

• #13

75?

That book's from 75?

That's before the USG Thoth.
The only proper Thoths at that time were the Llewellyn/Weiser versions with the light blue borders.

Hmmm.

Has anyone ever gone to the Warburg place and asked for a look????

 

gregory

• #14

Lillie said:

75?

That book's from 75?

That's before the USG Thoth.
The only proper Thoths at that time were the Llewellyn/Weiser versions with the light blue borders.

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I KNOW it is. That's what is such FUN

 

Lillie

• #15

Go on. Put up the scans of the other three cards he shows.

I need to see them...

Pretty please nicely

 

gregory

• #16

Sigh. I was just going to bed.....

OK.... *slaves away and shrinks file*

If you want it better, you'll have to wait till the morning....

No wait - I will email you the BIG 8 Mb one !

xxxx

 

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Lillie

• #17

OOh!

Thank you!

Those are all in Harris's borders.

Those are pictures of her paintings, not pictures of printed cards...

 

gregory

• #18

EXACTLY ! That's why they are ragged edged. And I reckon that's the Aeon that was in the exhibition !

Night night !

 

Lillie

• #19

Nighty night!

But was it that aeon in the exhibition, or the one in my BoT (also in her borders) which don't have the Fat Kid?

And how did she do the borders? (In the letters to Mr C she calls them frames)
Did she print them somehow?

78 of them (more maybe)
All the same.

I wonder if she was narked by her own design when she tried to fit XVIII into the top circle for the Moon.
It don't fit very well...

 

Abrac

• #20

In the picture credits at the back of Cavendish's book it says:

"Cards designed by Aleister Crowley, English, early 20th c. Warburg Inst. By permission of Gerald Yorke, Esq. (top left) Photo: Michael Holford"