Dodal, linked reproduction
Roy de Coupes
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗From a seat to an eagle-drawn vehicle
Compare the Kings’ held cups with the Prince’s cup in motion.
Start with the pictures
King of Cups
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 199
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Roy de Coupes
A crowned figure sits holding a large open cup. The vessel, bent legs and decorated clothing occupy much of the card.
Smith
King of Cups
A crowned figure sits on a throne surrounded by waves, holding a cup and a short sceptre. A ship and a leaping creature appear to either side.
Harris
Prince of Cups · Prince
A figure rides in a curved chariot drawn by a large bird. A cup and a curling serpent-like form appear near the rider’s outstretched arm.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite links the suit’s court imagery with water. He develops this king through responsibility, helpfulness and creative or professional intelligence, rather than describing water simply as emotion.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes a shell-like chariot drawn by an eagle, with another eagle on the helmet. He uses the card to consider water’s volatility and the activity of steam.
What changes when the cup’s bearer is carried by another creature?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.