Dodal, linked reproduction
Roy de Denies
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗What carries material power?
Compare the Kings’ seats with the Prince’s animal-drawn vehicle.
Start with the pictures
King of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 255
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Roy de Denies
A broad-hatted seated figure holds a small coin near the lap. Richly patterned clothing and bent legs occupy the foreground.
Smith
King of Pentacles
A crowned figure holds a pentacle and sceptre amid abundant vine patterns. Bulls’ heads decorate the throne, with a building beyond.
Harris
Prince of Disks · Prince
A muscular seated figure rides in a chariot drawn by an ox. A large round, gridded object rests beside the figure, surrounded by dense plant and geometric forms.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite associates the card with practical intelligence and successful application. He also notes that pentacles do not restrict every meaning in the suit to money.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes an ox drawing the Prince’s chariot and a globe-like disk marked with mathematical signs. He connects the design with planning and the earth’s productive activity.
Which part of the scene supplies the power, and which part directs it?
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.