4017 Handmade Tarot Deck

Physical description:

A Tarot deck handmade by covering 22 ordinary playing cards with hand painted pictures representing the Major Arcana; then 63 cards have hand-written across the top of each card the card they represent in the deck. The paintings appear to be in a mixture of pencil, pen, and watercolour paints. These Tarot cards are in a green card box which also contains a set of conventional playing cards.

Museum classification:

Mordern Witchcraft

Size:

80 x 50

Information:

Part of the collection donated by Tanith Burcombe left to her by her late mother Celia Penny, magical name Francesca, High Priestess of a Gardnerian Wiccan Coven .

 

The Tarot deck has been made by covering conventional playing cards.

The Major Arcana, of which there are 22, have been covered with hand painted illustrations, which appear to be a mixture of pencil, pen, and watercolour paint.

The rest of the cards have hand-written across the top of each card the name of which card they represent in the deck ( 63 cards ).

Resource:

Object

Materials:

watercolour on cards

Copyright ownership:

MWM

Part of the collection donated by Tanith Burcombe left to her by her late mother Celia Penny, magical name Francesca, High Priestess of a Gardnerian Wiccan Coven .

 

The Tarot deck has been made by covering conventional playing cards.

The Major Arcana, of which there are 22, have been covered with hand painted illustrations, which appear to be a mixture of pencil, pen, and watercolour paint.

The rest of the cards have hand-written across the top of each card the name of which card they represent in the deck ( 63 cards ).