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Great find, Ross. Perfect, in fact. Do you mind my putting it on my blog? The examples turning up here are exactly what I've been looking for. Can I also use Die kartenschlaegerin?Ross G Caldwell said:Vitali's caption reads:
"Cagliostro reading the cards from Le Grand Etteilla, ou l'art de tirer les cartes by Julia Orsini (Paris, around 1838).
Is that a fishing pole sticking over the chair? What's the scenario? Seems like a middle class family (perhaps on a picinic outing?) visiting a working class home where the elderly grandmother is known to read the cards. The woman standing behind the family seems of a lower class then they are - so could she have been a "local" who has brought the family to the tarot reader (a kind of procuress)? I love all the details in the picture.
Mary