Debra
The question is, if Pixie modeled her own drawings on the Visconti cards, why switch left & right on some of them? My guess is, some kind of kabbalistic reasoning.
The question is, if Pixie modeled her own drawings on the Visconti cards, why switch left & right on some of them? My guess is, some kind of kabbalistic reasoning.
Is it known what influenced Smith for each individual card? The lovers and magician in the visconti sforza and the cary yale visconti are mirrors images of each other. The shield of the empress is on one side in the visconti decks, and the other in the TdM and soprafino I think.
The question is, if Pixie modeled her own drawings on the Visconti cards, why switch left & right on some of them? My guess is, some kind of kabbalistic reasoning.
Is it known what influenced Smith for each individual card? The lovers and magician in the visconti sforza and the cary yale visconti are mirrors images of each other. The shield of the empress is on one side in the visconti decks, and the other in the TdM and soprafino I think.
The devil and tower of the visconti sforza deck are not original to the deck - my 2 decks have completely different sets of replacement devil and tower cards. One tower has no lightening at all.
So mine was right for all the wrong reasons Shame - I was coming here to say I was warming to your idea !The pierpoint-morgan deck was purchased in 1911....
So my theory is completely wrong.
Because that is the drawback of the machine they used. It mirror imaged everything. But if she didn't know that and just received them in the mail she would have thought that she drew it the right way.
I don't remember Kaplan saying that and I don't know of any source contemporary to her that indicates Smith had a copy of Book T.She was far more knowledgeable about the occult and had far more professional experience that they let on sometimes.
They say that she only had a fragmented part of the Book T from Waite, but she also had the complete book T from Yates and an unillustrated version from Matters. (According to Stuart Kaplan).
Your reference to Smith spending 3 days sketching in the museum is important information - can you give us a specific source?Both she and Aurthur Waite wrote that they spent at least 3 days in the museum sketching from the sola busca.