Dodal, linked reproduction
Reine de Baston
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Authority beside an animal
The held wand remains recognizable while the animals and surroundings alter the scene.
Start with the pictures
Queen of Wands
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 173
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Reine de Baston
A crowned seated figure holds a long baton diagonally across the body. The clothing and seat fill the lower card; there is no leopard beside the figure.
Smith
Queen of Wands
A seated queen holds a leafy staff and a sunflower. Lions decorate the throne, and a dark cat sits in front.
Harris
Queen of Wands · Queen
A seated figure with radiating red-gold hair holds a long staff. A spotted feline stands beside her in a fiery orange field.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite links the living branches of the suit with vitality and describes this queen as especially magnetic. His meanings include friendliness and affection, with some less favourable readings dependent on neighbouring cards.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley places the Queen on a throne of flame, with a cone-tipped wand and a leopard beside her. He contrasts adaptable, sustained authority with impatience when opposed.
How does the animal change the way you read the seated figure’s authority?
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.