Major Arcana · I
Le Bateleur
from The Conver Tarot de Marseille, blocks of 1760; this printing c. 1809-1833
A young conjurer in a wide-brimmed hat stands behind a three-legged table laid out with cups, coins, dice and a knife, a wand raised in his left hand. The street performer of the Marseille pattern; Waite kept his table of props when he remade him as the Magician.






