The Public Domain Review is a curatorial and historical essay publication, not a peer reviewed academic journal, and its pieces are written by named contributing writers and historians rather than vetted through academic refereeing. Its track record is one of careful, source-grounded curatorial writing on public domain works, and this specific essay, by the historian Kevin Dann, sits well within that track record: it documents a named engraver for a specific, well attested eighteenth century deck rather than advancing a novel or contested claim. It is a reasonable secondary source for a plain attributional fact of this kind. It is not a substitute for dedicated tarot history scholarship on Etteilla's broader system, which this atlas holds separately.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Kevin Dann's essay on Etteilla's Livre de Thot Tarot, published by The Public Domain Review, the middle tier reflecting a curatorial and historical essay publication rather than a peer reviewed academic journal, written by a named historian with a track record of careful, source-grounded curatorial writing. It documents a named engraver for a specific, well attested eighteenth century deck rather than advancing a novel or contested claim, a reasonable secondary source for a plain attributional fact of this kind. NotesThe essay's own publication year is not stated on the page and is left absent here rather than guessed. Cited narrowly for one fact: the 1789 Etteilla deck was engraved by Pierre-Francois Basan, a detail the essay states plainly.
Citation
AuthorKevin Dann
PublisherThe Public Domain Review
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etteilla-thot
Source TypeEssay
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Tarot Decks, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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