This is primarily for my own future reference, but I post it here because others may find it helpful as well. These are the highest-quality images I have been able to find for each of the cards. They are in something approximating chronological order, keeping in mind that most of the dates are estimates.
I am indebted to
Andy's Playing Cards for providing innumerable leads, and to
Tarot of Marseilles Heritage for many of the images of cards from that tradition. If I've missed anything important, please inform me in the comments.
(Note: The image of the Oswald Wirth card I had originally posted was incorrect. I replaced it with the correct one on November 23, 2019. The "restored" Jean Dodal card was replaced with the original on November 25, 2019.)
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| Visconti-Sforza (Milan, 1451) |
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| Ercole I d'Este (Ferrara, 1473) |
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| The Cary Sheet (Milan, 1550) |
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| Jacques Viéville (Paris, 1650) |
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| Jean Noblet (Paris, 1650) |
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| Tarot de Paris (Paris, 1650) |
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| Mitelli's Tarocchini (Bologna, 1664) |
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| Jean Dodal (Lyon, 1710) |
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| Pierre Madenié (Dijon, 1709) |
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| Jean-Pierre Payen (Avignon, 1713) |
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| François Héri (Solothurn, 1718) |
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| Minchiate Etruria (Florence, 1725) |
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| François Chosson (Marseille, 1736) |
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| Jean-Baptiste Madenié (Dijon, 1739) |
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| François Tourcaty (Marseille, 1745) |
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| Rochus Schär (Mümlisvil, 1750) |
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| Claude Burdel (Fribourg, 1751) |
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| Nicolas Conver (Marseille, 1760) |
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| Ignaz Krebs (Fribourg, 1780) |
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| Jacques Rochias (Neuchâtel, 1782) |
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| Grand Etteilla (Paris, 1788) |
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| Minchiate al Leone (Florence, 1790) |
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| Arnoux & Amphoux (Marseille, 1793) |
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| Bernardin Suzanne (Marseille, 1839) |
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| Oswald With (Paris, 1899) |
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| Lequart "Arnoult 1748" (Paris, 1890) |
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| Rider-Waite (London, 1910) |
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| Crowley's Thoth (1938-1943, pub. 1969) |
2 comments:
You can see why Rider-Waite was the one to stimulate mass interest and still (I think) is the most popular pack...
Apart from Etteilla, Waite was one of the first to portray the Magician as someone with real magical power, as opposed to a juggler or performer of conjuring tricks. (Crowley and Harris, whose artistic choices were nearly always wrongheaded, called him "The Magus" but also portrayed him literally juggling a variety of symbolic objects!)
Pamela Colman-Smith also had a real flair for graphic design, which cannot really be said of most of these other cardmakers.
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