Dodal, linked reproduction
Trois de Deniers
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Building a form
Three round objects become part of a plant pattern, a worked building and a geometric construction.
Start with the pictures
Three of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 277
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Trois de Deniers
Three coins form a triangle, one above a lower pair. Long curving stems and leaves wind between them without a human worker.
Smith
Three of Pentacles
A worker stands on a bench beneath an arch containing three pentacles, facing two other figures, one holding a plan.
Harris
Three of Disks · 3
Three red wheel-like disks occupy the corners of a pale triangular structure. Repeated grey-blue forms fill the surrounding field.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite explicitly compares this worker with the Eight of Pentacles: the earlier apprentice is now working in earnest. His meanings include skilled work and recognition.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes Work through Mars in Capricornus and the constructive activity of a builder or engineer. He identifies the structure as a pyramid seen from above, with three alchemical principles represented by its wheels.
Where does the picture place the work: in people, in a structure or in the relationship among its parts?
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.