Thalia (comedy, pastoral poetry) (from the Tarocchi series D:  Apollo and the Muses, #16)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Thalia (comedy, pastoral poetry) (from the Tarocchi series D: Apollo and the Muses, #16)

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian, active 1460s) · before 1467

engraving hand-colored with gold
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Thalia is the only Muse in the Tarocchi series that is not represented with a celestial disk. Indeed, Thalia was believed to be a bucolic Muse, thus related to earth.

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