The Waite–Smith Deck
Judgement
The trumpet call and the rising answer.
- Work
- from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck
- Plate
- Major Arcana · Key 20
- Maker
- Pamela Colman Smith, for A. E. Waite
- Date
- 1909
- Source
- Published London, 1909 · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
An angel sounds a trumpet from the clouds, and below, figures rise with open arms from their coffins on a grey sea. Pamela Colman Smith drew it in 1909 as the card of the great awakening — the call and the answer, the reckoning that lifts rather than condemns. A cross-marked banner hangs from the trumpet. Smith completed all seventy-eight images in a matter of months for a flat fee, and the deck answered to other names for the better part of a century. Find the rising figures, the far white mountains, and the 'PCS' monogram set into the lower corner.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Judgement printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from the 1909 Waite–Smith deck (1909), held by Published London, 1909 · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
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