Fantastic Menagerie
Fantastic Menagerie tarot deck offering distinctive artistic vision and interpretive approach.
creator unknown · 1828
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The record
From the prolific and talented duo of Karen Mahony and Alex Ukolov at baba studio, creators of the Tarot of Prague, the Baroque Bohemian Cats Tarot, and the Fairytale Tarot, comes the new Fantastic Menagerie Tarot. While at first glance it may seem to be superficially similar to the Tarot of the Animal Lords from Lo Scarabeo, this deck is a different kettle of fish (so to speak). Based on the illustrations of the nineteenth-century French-born journalist, political caricaturist and artist JJ Grandville, these cards has been created in his style, and are witty, charming, and beautifully adapted to Tarot. JJ Grandville (born Adolphe Gerard) drew many subjects over his career, but was perhaps best known for his satirical political cartoons, The Metamorphoses of the Day. These were a series of political and rather scandalous lithographs from 1828, which featured the personalities of the day as human-dressed animals that best suited their character and class of society. Grandville worked from keen observation of human foibles and studies of nature, which is apparent in the skillfulness and incisiveness of his sketches. He delighted in the quirky, the everyday, the anecdotal events
The cards
