Dodal, linked reproduction
Reine de Denier
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Holding a coin, surveying a landscape
The Queen’s relation to the surrounding land becomes more prominent in the Thoth design.
Start with the pictures
Queen of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 257
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Reine de Denier
A crowned seated figure raises a coin near the face and holds a long sceptre in the other hand. The two objects frame the upper body.
Smith
Queen of Pentacles
A crowned figure looks down at a pentacle held in her lap, seated in a flowering landscape. A small rabbit appears near the lower edge.
Harris
Queen of Disks · Queen
A seated, horned figure turns toward a pale distant landscape. A large disk rests near the body, with a goat-like animal in the foreground and dark curved forms overhead.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite emphasizes generosity, security and breadth of spirit. The act of looking at the emblem is part of his account of serious, contemplative intelligence.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes a Queen amid vegetation, looking toward a desert crossed by a river, with a goat before her. The landscape makes fertility a central concern of his account.
Does the figure attend to the held object, the nearby growth or the land beyond?
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.