laura_borealis said:
...or the artist wasn't very skilled.
Compare the crustacean on the Soprafino. Della Rocca was a skilled artist and his depiction is unambiguous. It looks as if he had an actual (and cooked!) crawfish in front of him as he drew it. Pamela Colman Smith's is an improvement over the Marseilles-type crawfish, but is similar enough to it that I believe she based it on the earlier card rather than drawing from life.
Thanks Laura
The Moon card of Soprafino looks great! An unambiguous Crawfish.
It is a cooked one, on the plate already, the plate is striking!
Do you have a book with the Sofrafino set, or an idea, as i am curious how they explain the Plate (the Yummie I understand..!!
The Marseille crawfish could have been an example, I think she was skilled enough to draw 3 particles instead of 4, when she should have used an example from a Bestiary from Waite's Library.(assuming he owned such a book)
But in the set there are more varieties in numbers, the most striking, I think are the 5 streams on Ace of Cups and the 4 Waite is talking about.
Edited: Abrac convinced me there are 3 particles.
Luci