Desecrated
I'm reading through the visconti-sforza deck and I noticed that almost every card is mirror imaged in the RWS.
So I started wondering, what if pixie used copies made from the Pierpont-Morgan deck.
There wasn't much technology that could do that back in 1909 but one machine was the Rectigraph. It took a photo of a document and then flipped it over and printed it on a piece of paper. Mirror imaged.
They opened shop in new york 1906-1907.
In 1907, Alfred Stieglitz gave Smith an exhibition of paintings in New York at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (also known as gallery 291), making Smith the first painter to have a show at what had been until then a gallery devoted exclusively to the photographic avant-garde.
Going through the major arcana:
The fool in RWS is most likely the fool from golden dawn deck, they look very similar and the VSD looks very different
RWS has magician holding the staff in his right, VSD has it in his left.
High priestess looks identical
The empress, RWS the shield on the right, VSD on the left.
The emperor - Very identical, staff and globe in the same hand.
Heirophant - identical
Justice - identical
The chariot- the stick is in the same hand but they are faced in different directions.
The lovers - VSD - Woman on the left. RWS Woman on the right
The devil - VSD left hand up. RWS - left hand down
The tower - VSD lightning from the right - RWS lightning from the left.
Temperance _ VSD Right hand high, left hand low - RWS, left hand high, right hand low.
Hermit looks identical
Strength VSD both lion and man is facing left - RWS both lion and woman is facing right.
Wheel of fortune - Identical, red figure on the left, blue on top. Same on both.
The hanged man- VSD hanging from his left foot, RWS hanging from his right.
Death - Two completely different cards, very hard to compare.
The star - facing in different directions.
The moon - the actual moons are in different directions
The sun - SVD kid turns to the right, RWS kid turns to the left
Judgment - Similar.
The world - very different cards.
So I started wondering, what if pixie used copies made from the Pierpont-Morgan deck.
There wasn't much technology that could do that back in 1909 but one machine was the Rectigraph. It took a photo of a document and then flipped it over and printed it on a piece of paper. Mirror imaged.
They opened shop in new york 1906-1907.
In 1907, Alfred Stieglitz gave Smith an exhibition of paintings in New York at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (also known as gallery 291), making Smith the first painter to have a show at what had been until then a gallery devoted exclusively to the photographic avant-garde.
Going through the major arcana:
The fool in RWS is most likely the fool from golden dawn deck, they look very similar and the VSD looks very different
RWS has magician holding the staff in his right, VSD has it in his left.
High priestess looks identical
The empress, RWS the shield on the right, VSD on the left.
The emperor - Very identical, staff and globe in the same hand.
Heirophant - identical
Justice - identical
The chariot- the stick is in the same hand but they are faced in different directions.
The lovers - VSD - Woman on the left. RWS Woman on the right
The devil - VSD left hand up. RWS - left hand down
The tower - VSD lightning from the right - RWS lightning from the left.
Temperance _ VSD Right hand high, left hand low - RWS, left hand high, right hand low.
Hermit looks identical
Strength VSD both lion and man is facing left - RWS both lion and woman is facing right.
Wheel of fortune - Identical, red figure on the left, blue on top. Same on both.
The hanged man- VSD hanging from his left foot, RWS hanging from his right.
Death - Two completely different cards, very hard to compare.
The star - facing in different directions.
The moon - the actual moons are in different directions
The sun - SVD kid turns to the right, RWS kid turns to the left
Judgment - Similar.
The world - very different cards.